The whimbrel appear in the late afternoon sky above Deveaux Bank, a tiny island – a sandbar, really – just off the South Carolina coast south of Charleston. Crouched in the dunes, correspondent Martha ...
The fast-flying, wire-wearing, record-breaking shorebird known as Winnie the whimbrel is missing and presumed dead near the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior on her way south and east from her Alaskan ...
We were at Fort Stevens, a few miles outside of Astoria, my hometown. My two younger sisters walked ahead of us, bundled against the cold of the mid-May evening. The wind was strong and unrelenting, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young whimbrel, tagged and tracked by scientists at the Manomet Conservation Sciences, departed Cape Cod in late summer, ready ...
Scientists say satellite tracking shows that he's resting in the Bahamas. Aug. 29, 2011 — -- A whimbrel named Chinquapin that flew through Hurricane Irene during its annual migration from Canada ...
Editor's Note: This article was updated July 17 to correct Lisa Lister's position at Fairview Hospital. GREAT BARRINGTON — When birders heard that the storm had likely blown a whimbrel off course and ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NORTHAMPTON COUNTY — The whimbrel skitters along the Mockhorn Island mudflat and pokes its long ...
QUINBY, Va.—There’s the whimbrel. It’s a large brown and tan shorebird with long legs and a curved beak it uses to dig into the sand and mud for food. And there are wind turbines—176 of them to be ...
Scientists are tracking a migrating shorebird that appears to have survived flying through the most dangerous segment of Hurricane Irene. The shorebird, a whimbrel named Chinquapin, is migrating from ...