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Dapper AF
A Diademed Sandpiper-Plover looking mighty fine as it feeds in a pond high up in the Andes.
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Juvenile Diademed Sandpiper-Plover
This juvenile Diademed Sandpiper-Plover is starting to fill out and develop a more adult plumage. The chicks start out as cotton balls on toothpicks like all plovers, just more mottled than North American plovers. The adolescents don’t sport the striking diadem the adults have, but do have a richer and more varied coloration on their
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Diademed Sandpiper-Plovers at Valle del Yeso
My big wildlife trip for this year centered around a week-long Patagonian Puma photography tour. Given the length of the trip, I wanted to spend some extra time in Chile. Just getting to Santiago from San Francisco is a 17 hour trip, with the flight from Santiago to Patagonia taking another 3 hours. As I
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Diademed Sandpiper Plover
The Diademed Sandpiper-Plover is a fascinating shorebird, one of a small number of high alpine specialist shorebirds. It inhabits glacier-fed wetlands high in the Andes. I photographed this one at 3000 ft, but they’re found as high as 4500 ft. Despite their name, they’re a true plover. Very little is known about them. For example,