Abundance: Common
Season: Year round
Habitat: Shore or mudflat
Breeding status: Breeds at or near Upper Newport Bay
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#26.02.36 - Adult (May 23). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#26.02.43 - Adult incubating (Jun). Photograph © Charles
W. Melton. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#26.02.09 - Adult brooding chick (Jul). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#26.02.30 - Juvenile. Photograph © Peter
Knapp. Original available from the Sea and
Sage Audubon Library of Nature.