Publisher's Synopsis
This title describes the fascinating lives of the two most ubiquitous shorebirds in the world. Between them the common sandpiper and spotted sandpiper make use of a large part of the world's terrestrial habitat and they exhibit many of the exciting features of shorebirds. The author has spent over 40 years studying the lives of these fantastic birds and provides a wealth of information including their breeding behaviour, migrations, distribution, food sources, habitats and their history from the present back to 36 million years ago.
