Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus
Family: Sandpipers and allies
Whimbrel is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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This Eurasian whimbrel feeds by probing soft mud for small invertebrates and by picking small crabs and similar prey off the surface.
Within a couple weeks of hatching they become quite mobile on the ground, and soon thereafter, the nest is abandoned.
The nest is a bare scrape on tundra or Arctic moorland, often in low vegetation or moss but rarely in deep grass or marshland.