Curlew Sandpiper

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_2079 20171226 - three. CLICK for one w. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
20181218.

Notes: Slender if standing tall, plump if hunched down. Long fine black legs, long down-curved
black bill, long white supercilium, white rump patch & wing bar. Breeding adult mainly rufous,
like larger Red Knot. Juvenile peach-buff wash across breast when fresh, white-scalloped
upperparts. Migrant from Arctic Siberia. Mostly on tidal flats, also inland wetlands.

Range from Morcombe^©

Machans Beach, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_3760 20250707 - breeding plumage. CLICK to see barring on upper-tail coverts.

Machans Beach, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_3891 20250707 - breeding plumage. CLICK with Siberian Sand Plover.

Machans Beach, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_4009 20250711 - breeding plumage. CLICK for one in partial breeding plumage
at Foreshore, Cairns North, 20200830.

Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_3137 20191101 - CLICK for another: 20231207.

Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_1553 20230920 - one w. some colour. CLICK for 4 with Great Knot on left.

Dunne Road Swamp, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_6463 20221101 - flying, showing white rump & wing-bar w. two Sharp-tailed
Sandpipers. CLICK for one at Richards Point, Roebuck Bay, NW WA 20180913.

Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_0879 20231105 CLICK for one w. Great Knots the next day.

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_2012 20201120 CLICK for one on 20221114

Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld IMG_3780 20191102 - in front of Great Knot.

Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_2474 20220916 - Adult on right. Juvenile on left showing white-scalloped upperparts;
hint of buff wash across breast.

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_3291 20200830 - partial breeding plumage, w. Sharp-tailed Sandpipers.

Cairns Foreshore, FNE Qld MVI_9338 20191201

Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_2792 20230925