Pectoral Sandpiper, Forfar Loch

A rare passage bird, a Pectoral Sandpiper has spent a few days at Forfar Loch. The RSPB have this information about it. "They're scarce passage migrants from America and Siberia. A few are seen in spring, but the vast majority appear in late summer and autumn. Young Pectoral Sandpipers from the eastern coast of North America can be blown over the Atlantic by areas of low pressure. It is the most common North American wading bird to occur here and has even started to breed in Scotland very recently."

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