Whimbrel Portrait (IMAGE)

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Whimbrel Portrait

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Whimbrel are large, striking shorebirds known for their downcurved bills, which are ideally adapted to plucking fiddler crabs from muddy burrows.

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Matt Aeberhard/Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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