Pectoral Sandpipers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Pectoral Sandpipers are medium sized sandpipers with moderately long necks, legs and slightly drooping bills. They have highly streaked breasts, white bellies, dark rumps and tails and reddish brown backs with two thin white stripes.

Migrating Pectoral Sandpiper In Oklahoma

By Mia McPherson|April 17th, 2025|Categories: Birds, Oklahoma, Pectoral Sandpipers, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: adult, bottomlands, Calidris melanotos, foraging, Pectoral Sandpiper, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, spring, water|

Earlier this week, I was delighted to photograph a migrating Pectoral Sandpiper at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

World Wetlands Day 2021

By Mia McPherson|February 2nd, 2021|Categories: American Barn Owls, American Bitterns, American Coots, Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Black-crowned Night Herons, Blue-winged Teals, Brewer's Blackbirds, Centennial Valley, Checkered White Butterflies, Cinnamon Teals, Common Mergansers, Conservation, Eight-spotted Skimmers, Environment, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets, Greater Scaups, Green-winged Teals, Halloween Pennants, Hooded Mergansers, Least Sandpipers, Lesser Scaups, Long-tailed Weasels, Marsh Wrens, Montana, Moose, Muskrats, Northern Harriers, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Pectoral Sandpipers, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Red-breasted Mergansers, Red-winged Blackbirds, Reddish Egrets, Redheads, Ruddy Ducks, Rusty Blackbirds, Sandhill Cranes, Scarlet Skimmers, Snowy Egrets, Spotted Sandpipers, Tricolored Herons, Trumpeter Swans, Tundra Swans, Utah, Variegated Meadowhawk, White-faced Ibises, Wildflowers, Wilson's Phalaropes, Yellow-crowned Night Herons, Yellow-headed Blackbirds|Tags: birds, critical, insects, plants, protection, water, wetlands, wildlife, World Wetlands Day|

February 2nd is World Wetlands Day to raise global awareness about the critical role of wetlands for people, wildlife and our planet.

A Lifer for Me – Pectoral Sandpiper at Farmington Bay WMA

By Mia McPherson|September 25th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Pectoral Sandpipers, Utah|Tags: alert, autumn, Calidris melanotos, fall, grasses, lifer, marsh, marshy, migration, mud, Pectoral Sandpiper, rarity, sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds, wading, walking, water, wetlands|

It isn't every day that I add a lifer to the list of shorebirds I have seen and photographed but yesterday I did when I saw and photographed a Pectoral Sandpiper.