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Tidal flats are created by swift currents and exposed when the tide goes out. Sand and mud flats in coastal wetlands provide food for migratory shorebirds. Each species finds the zone for its foraging style and appetite. Adjacent upland and transitional habitats provide nesting and roosting areas.


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	Black-bellied Plover

	Black Tern

	Buff Breasted Sandpiper

	Dunlin

	Pectoral Sandpiper

	Purple Sandpiper

	Red Knot

	Ruddy Turnstone

	Sanderling

	Semipalmated Sandpiper

	Semipalmated Plover

	Short-billed Dowitcher

Buff Breasted Sandpiper	PHOTO: 1

This handsome shorebird is a rare visitor. The ones that you might see are likely to be juveniles that have strayed during long migration flights from the Arctic to South America. Buff-breasted Sandpipers prefer dry, short grass habitats during migration, but on Plymouth Beach they will feed on high mudflats or in the wrack line.