#surfbird

[snototter]

A surfbird (Calidris virgata) feeding on barnacles in Vancouvar Island, BC, Canada

by Tim Melling

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Bird watching at Botanical Beach, Port Renfrew, BC

Taken March 2026

[great-and-small]

I use Sibley’s “Birds of land, sea, and sky” watercolor postcards for greeting cards and it makes for a fun mini-game for me choosing a different bird species for certain people and occasions.

I am particularly delighted by how perfect this selection is- a baby surfbird as my congratulations card at a surfing themed baby shower!

[hawkpartys]

Surfbird (Calidris virgata) alongside the visually similar Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)

[dendroica]

Surfbird (via USFWS - Pacific Region)

Photo credit: Peter Pearsall/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

[lies]

Surfbird (Calidris virgata)

Santa Barbara Harbor, 2019-04-24

[musictherapy611]

Daily Bird: Surfbird

Range: summers, Alaska; winters, Pacific coast

More information: here

Photo: https : // www . allaboutbirds . org/guide/Surfbird/media-browser/64813501

[thalassarche]

Surfbird (Calidris virgata) - photo by mattag2002