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🦉 The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

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

This nimble bird is the embodiment of anxiety. At first glance, it is nondescript: gray-brown back, white belly, no bright details. But watch it for a minute, and you understand why you remember it.
He does not walk along the shore, but runs, as if he is late, and all this with comical bows - the tail up and down, like a wagtail. Most often I met them on pebble banks, on the banks of rivers, and once I met them in a dry swamp.

These birds have a very memorable voice, which over time begins to become annoying. We call this sandpiper "the carrier". Because it constantly runs from one place to another.