The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a small, delicately built shorebird with a fairly long neck, rounded head, and large eye. The bill is slender and short for a sandpiper bill (about the length of the head).
This is the famous bird of Europe whose voice is imitated by cuckoo clocks. A common migratory bird across most of Europe and Asia, it regularly strays to the western Alaskan islands in late spring / early summer and winters in Africa.
Large sea bird with a daggerlike bill. Adults are mostly white with a yellowish wash on the head and neck with black flight feathers. Northern Gannets spend most of their time at sea, but at many beaches on the Atlantic Coast there are at least a few close enough to be visible from shore.
