Willet (Tringa semipalmata) |
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© Carl Beel | © Carl Beel | © Barbara Olmtak |
© Bert van den Broek | © Alexander Elias |
The Willet has a long sturdy bill and uses it for instance to catch crabs in the firm mud on the coast of Suriname. It will fly away when you come too near and show its black-and-white wings. Willets are present all through the year with largest numbers in July. Photos of a Willet, seen by Carl Beel at Weg naar Zee near Paramaribo in September 2008. |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 242 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |