Nebraska’s First Curlew Sandpiper ( Calidris ferruginea )

• Main Authors: Jorgensen, Joel G., Silcock, W. Ross
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1998
• Subjects: Ornithology; Poultry or Avian Science; Zoology; South Road; Arenaria interpres; Ruddy Turnstone
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebbirdrev/1005; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nebbirdrev/article/1998/viewcontent/Nebraska_Bird_Review_66_1_Mar_1998_Curlew_Sandpiper.pdf

During a birding trip on 19 July 1997, we stopped at Funk WPA, Phelps County. While viewing from the north-south road that runs through the marsh at the east end of the marsh, we caught glimpses of a large group of shorebirds behind cattails in an area on the south side of the main marsh and about a...