Sandpipers, Snipes
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpres
The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name arenaria derives from arenarius, "inhabiting sand, from arena, "sand".
- Family
- Sandpipers, Snipes
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 136 g
- Habitat
- Coastal
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 153
Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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