Close-up of a sandpiper standing in the mud. Small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions. Also called grass bird. (Family: scolopacidae; binomial name: calidris alpina).

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Creator

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Sandpipers
• Dunlin
• Birds--Habitat
• Birds--Ecology
• Birds

Language

• eng

Identifier

• COWAN_PH_108; Cowan_PN_658; Cowan B & W Photographs - Species and Locations - Box 4

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 photograph : black and white ; 9 x 11.5 cm

Alternative title

• Redbacked sandpiper

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Fonds title

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Fonds identifier

• AR514

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by Briony Penn. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original resource and for reproduction requests. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/19ke-e654

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