Willets
The Willet, Tringa semipalmata (formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus: Pereira & Baker, 2005; Banks et al., 2006), is a large shorebird in the sandpiper family. It is a well-sized and stout scolopacid, the largest of the shanks.
Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
Identification Tips:
Length: 13.5 inches
Sexes similar
Large, plump-looking, long-legged shorebird
Long, thick, straight bill
Bill black or blue-gray with darker tip
Blue-gray legs ...
Willet ( Tringa semipalmata )
Willet, Goose Island State Park, Texas
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
The Willet (Tringa semipalmata) breeds in wetlands in the northern Great Plains as well as many areas of the Gulf and Atlantic coastal areas of the United States. It winters commonly on all our seacoasts.
The willet forages in mudflats, intertidal areas, and shallow marsh waters and snatches up food from the surface or the water or it probes in the mud with its long bill. It often wades up to its belly in the water searching for food.
Willet
(Tringa semipalmata)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Willet
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (Gmelin)
Status Fairly common in summer. Breeds. Generally first arrives in late April (average 22 April, earliest 9 April; see Remarks for earlier individual on Sable Island).
Willet
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
The Willets retire to the interior of the larger salt-marshes for the purpose of forming their nests and raising their broods in security.
Willet, (Eastern) Tringa semipalmata Found: East coast of The Americas ...
Willet
By now (May 10) most shorebirds have left, and there is a bit of a lull as the neotropical songbirds slowly filter in. Still present along the coast are some of the larger shorebirds like Willet and Whimbel.
Willets inhabit coastal marshes and mudflats and may move inland during the fall. They are ground nesters. Two to three weeks after the eggs hatch, the female leaves and the male cares for the young for another two weeks.
Willet
Wood Stork
Western Tanager
Piranga ludoviciana
Western tanagers do not naturally have red feathers on their heads. The red color is from a natural chemical called rhodoxanthin that collects in the bird's body after eating insects.
Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus. Breeder. Common in all seasons in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, rare in spring, late summer, and fall. Found on mudflats, beaches, and in marshes. Low Conservation Concern.
Willet
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
American Woodcock
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Willette, M., T. Norton, C. Miller, M. Lamm. 2002. Veterinary Concerns of Captive Duikers. Zoo Biology, 21: 197-207.
Willet - 1 on Plymouth Beach
Ruddy Turnstone - several on Plymouth Beach
Sanderling - several on Plymouth Beach ...
Willet Tringa semipalmata: Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, Newport Beach, CA, 01 Jan
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY 16 Apr ...
^ Feskanich D, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA. Milk, dietary calcium, and bone fractures in women: a 12-year prospective study. Am J Public Health 1997; 87:992-7.
^ Brody T. Calcium and phosphate. In: Nutritional biochemistry. 2nd ed.
Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus). Snoozing in the waves at Pea Island NWR, Dare Co., NC 11/6/04.
Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica) - Dare Co., NC 11/9/08
Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) - Dare Co., NC 11/7/08 ...
Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Sand martin (Riparia riparia)
Velvet worm (Speleoperipatus spelaeus)
Sandwich tern (Sterna sandvicensis)
Dendropanax (Dendropanax cordifolius) ...
been indicated as " Stints," a term cognate with Stunt and wholly inapplicable to many of them, while American writers have restricted to them the name of " Sandpiper," and call the Totaninae, to which that name is especially appropriate, " Willets.
sandpipers can be found by streams ; also the Baird's, least, semipalmated , Western, and white rumped sandpipers , collectively called" peeps" and the red backed sandpiper or dunlin ; and of the greater and lesser yellow legs, the willet , ...
are the spotted and solitary sandpipers, found by streams; the Baird's, least, semipalmated, western, and white-rumped sandpipers, collectively called "peeps"; the red-backed sandpiper, or dunlin, and the greater and lesser yellow-legs, the willet, ...
 See also: Sandpiper, Plover, Shorebird, Sanderling, Snipe
  
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