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Like the Black Turnstone, the Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres also forages for food by "turning stones" on rocky beaches. It is a smallish orange-legged shore bird. Both this Ruddy Turnstone and the Black Turnstone were photographed intermingling with each other on the same isolated beach in front of the of the Montage Hotel, Laguna Beach, CA.

The Ruddy Turnstone is a circumpolar sandpiper breeding in the summer in the high artic and migrating in the winter to shorelines throughout the U.S.

All photos with numbers in the 8000's were taken on Ferandina Island in the Galapagos. Those in the 7000 series and 6993 were taken at Longboat Keys, FL.he 4000 series photos were taken in Peru. Those in the 00 series were taken at Cape May, NY The 30 and 32 photos were taken on Tobago. The 300 series were taken at the Monterey Aquarium aviary.

Ruddy Turnstone