Whimbrel

Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, May 27, 2021.



We saw a flock of 28 on the south beach of the park from the pontoon boat.

Numenius phaeopus
Hope was the name given to a female Whimbrel captured on the coast of Virginia in 2009 and fitted with a satellite transmitter. Over the next three years, researchers tracked Hope for more than 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers) traveling back and forth between her breeding area on the Mackenzie River in western Canada and her wintering site, at Great Pond on St. Croix, British Virgin Islands.
Source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology- All About Birds

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