Ruddy Turnstone Photos
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Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Found on coasts all over the world, the ruddy turnstone feeds in a distinctive way, scuttling along the tideline, flicking stones aside with a deft movement of its bill.
Ruddy Turnstone
Relatives in same Genus
Black Turnstone (A. melanocephala) ...
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres
The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a widespread migratory shorebird. It gets its common name since it often turns over small stones as it forages along tide lines or beaches.
Ruddy Turnstone
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The ruddy turnstone flips over rocks looking for small animals underneath them. It also digs into the sand in pursuit of crustaceans.
Ruddy Turnstone
(Arenaria interpres)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 1994
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
The ruddy turnstone uses its wedge-shaped bill to open barnacles, dig holes and flip aside stones, shells and seaweed in pursuit of small invertebrates and insects.
Ruddy turnstones can fly at speeds up to 40 mph.
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus)
Status Common transient, rare in winter. It is an uncommon spring migrant generally seen during May (earliest 28 April, latest 2 June).
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres - Male in breeding plumage
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Ruddy Turnstone
Adult breeding
Rufous and black mottled upperparts
Pale head, black and white patterned face and neck
Black breast pattern
© Bob Baker, Virginia, September 2007 ...
Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
Some day I'd love to see a race between a Ruddy Turnstone and a Sanderling, as both these species can really scoot along the shore. Not an endearing trait for the photographer, for sure.
Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Great frigatebird (Fregata minor)
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Common tern (Sterna hirundo)
New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) ...
Ruddy Turnstone is similar but browner in basic plumage, and has a pale area within dark chest bands, and brighter red legs, and may show traces of rust-red back feathers.
Ruddy Turnstone - 8 at the mouth of Rye Harbor
Cedar Waxwing - 7 past the Isles of Shoals, 3 in NH, 4 in Maine
Whales: ...
Ruddy Turnstone
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Black Vulture
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Ruddy Turnstone
The Scolopacidae are a large diverse family of small to medium sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers and phalaropes.
The Ruddy Turnstone is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
TURNSTONE.
[Ruddy Turnstone.]
STREPSILAS INTERPRES, Linn.
[Arenaria interpres.] ...
noisy killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), found in pasturelands; the larger (11 in./27.5 cm) black-bellied (Squatarola squatarola) and golden (Pluvialis dominica) plovers, which migrate as far as 2,000 mi (3,220 km) annually; and the ruddy turnstone ...
(aka Ruddy Turnstone)
Scotland
The Turnstone breeds around the fringes of the Arctic in northern Europe, Asia, North America and Greenland.
Black Turnstone is one of the characteristic shorebirds of the Pacific Coast, often seen foraging for invertebrates in the rocky intertidal zone along with its fellow "rockpipers"--Ruddy Turnstone, Wandering Tattler, Surfbird, and Rock Sandpiper.
Uncommon in North Carolina, Purple Sandpipers are almost always found along rock jetties. This one (left) is with a Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres), another bird commonly found on jetties.
Oregon Inlet, Dare Co., NC 11/4/05.
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) ...
 See also: Turnstone, Sandpiper, Lion, Sea Lion, Spiny-Tailed Iguana
  
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