On Sun, 30 Apr 1995, Burton Guttman wrote:

Even the suggestion that one is filling in for Dennis Paulson is
daunting, but we see this phenomenon regularly on the Long Beach
Peninsula at all times of the year.

Grant Hendrickson
Longview, Wa


> While watching a mixed flock of Dunlin and Western Sandpipers a couple of
> days ago, I thought I was seeing a one-legged Dunlin, because it kept
> hopping around on one leg while actively feeding, not just standing on one
> leg to rest. But then I saw a couple of others doing the same thing and
> I realized that they couldn't all be one-legged. Has anyone else seen
> this behavior? Is it common in Dunlin, or in calidridines generally? I
> find no reference to it in books on shorebirds, including Dennis
> Paulson's. Dennis is away for a while; maybe someone else knows.
>
> Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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