Sanderlings

There was a small flock of sanderlings (Calidris alba), along with the usual cormorants. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)

Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That was about it except for some very distant sanderlings and cormorants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There were tons of semipalmated and least sandpipers, some sanderlings, two semipalmated plovers and one piping plover. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe if I had the special fog-penetrating binoculars :- All the usual gull suspects put in appearances, as did sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, more willets, and tons and tons of cormorants. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Two sanderlings weaving in and out among them look ridiculously small and hyper compared to the black-bellieds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sanderlings are still noshing on coquinas in Cape May. ❋ Doyle (2008)

Yes, they were PIPING PLOVERs -- well 11 of them were, the other two were sanderlings. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Other shorebirds came and went in pairs or small groups: sanderlings, dunlin, black-bellied plovers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The two sanderlings flew down the beach to join a flock of about half a dozen of their own kind. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The usual gull suspects, a small flock of sanderlings, a lone piping plover, and some tree swallows are just about it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The amazing thing about sanderlings is that every year they fly nearly eight thousand miles to get to their wintering ground. ❋ Maribeth Fischer (2007)

Then one of the sanderlings got too close and the plover attacked it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[Fander] 1: [Imagine] if we were still called Sanderlings. Fander 2: [lmaooooo] that’s so dumb tho ❋ B0WT13S (2020)