Wildlife Cohabiting Together — Killdeer and Least Sandpiper
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I adored watching this Killdeer and a Least Sandpiper hanging together for several days at our campground. It appeared as if the Killdeer was the protector. When the Killdeer took flight to another spot, the tiny sandpiper followed. While the Killdeer kept guard, the tiny sandpiper crouched down and rested.
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Killdeer and Least Sandpiper
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Killdeer and Least Sandpiper
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Least Sandpiper, the smallest shorebird in the world,
weighing about 1 ounce and measuring 5-6 inches long.
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This is so sweet! I hope you and all your dear ones are staying safe ❤
Thank you, Takami, such a tiny little one! 🙂 We are all staying safe, I hope you and yours are too. ❤
Nice Donna! Seems like they really stuck together!
Best buddies for a while! 🙂
Strange friends…a lesson for ‘us’- human beings!! 🙂
I agree, us humans could really learn from wildlife!! 😊
I guess when you’re THAT small you need a bit of protection. Nice to see them working in harmony anyway. 😊
Wildlife does at times take care of each other, I love that, so special to see! 😊
I’ve only seen one Least and it was tiny. lovely to see these two forming a ‘flock’.
It makes a more special scene to watch, one bird watching out for another. 🙂
Cute little buddies!
They are, aren’t they!! 😊
Adopted, maybee.
Maybe! We were at this campground for about three weeks, at least six Killdeer were on the premises the entire time. The little sandpiper showed up sometime during the second week and disappeared a week later. I was thinking possibly the Least Sandpiper was on its migration on a break, they go as far south as Chile and Brazil in South America. Either way, cute! 🙂
Sweet!
Most definitely! 😊
A very sweet pair 🙂
Best buds! 🙂
Great captures, Donna. Making good friends. 🙂
Thank you, HJ! 🙂
Even birds have special friends! Great photo!
It is nice that they do! 🥰
Oh how sweet. I love to see different species working together.
I do too, it always makes me smile 😊
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What a lovely example of friendship Donna between species. I have seen it with other bird and animal species where they befriend each other because they are single. Similar to humans some birds feel fulfilled when they are performing their God given roles even if it is not caring for their own kind.
Thank you, Ashley, wonderfully said! We did have a lot of Killdeer on site, but the little sandpiper was the only one I saw. I seen him resting a lot with that Killdeer, I wondered if he was still on migration and just on a stop break, they goes as far as Chile and Brazil for the winter.
Oh how sweet! ❣❣
Wildlife never fails to make us smile! 😊
I love the thought of interspecies buddies – very sweet.
I enjoyed seeing them together for about a week. They always made me smile 🙂
How generous of the killdeer to offer protection. The tiny least sandpiper is adorable. I saw my first flock of them last summer at our local beach. There were a few semipalmated sandpipers in the flock, too. Alas, they were only passing through on their migration and I never saw them again. 🌲
Isn’t this just so sweet?!! Such a tiny sandpiper, I saw/photographed my first one back in October in the OBX in fleeting moments, so this was a special treat for me. 😊
Beautiful photos and observations 🙂
Post of the day!
Ahhhh…..thank you so much! It was sweet scenes! 🙂
That is adorable! The images are beautiful.
Thank you, Deborah, I smiled every time I saw them together. 😊