Birdwatching - 1725 🐦

🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

📚 Actitis (Greek) - inhabitant of the coast
📚 hypoleucos (Greek): - whitish

These squeaky sandpipers live near the banks of rivers and lakes, but I also met them in flooded meadows. They are very shy, and as soon as you start moving towards them, they immediately fly away.
By the way, I forgot to say that once I met him in a completely unusual place for him. It was a coniferous forest far from water bodies. And the sandpiper was near a dried-up swamp. This is weird.

But most often I meet them near a large city river. They roam the coast and islands of stones. And in the spring, during the mating season, they fly over the water and squeak unpleasantly.