The Story
The shot
I made this photo of a Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) at Reserva Natural Hato Berlín in Trinidad, Casanare, Colombia. The Solitary Sandpiper breeds in the boreal forest of Alaska and Canada, and unlike most sandpipers it lays its eggs in old songbird nests in trees. It usually migrates alone, and most spend the winter in the tropics along freshwater ponds, streams and marshy fields. Hato Berlín is a civil-society nature reserve on the Casanare savanna, about 10 km from Trinidad, where capybaras, caimans, turtles, monkeys and savanna and marsh birds can be seen. IUCN lists the Solitary Sandpiper as Least Concern.
I used a Pentax K-1 with the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 for this one, at 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100. In 2020 Hato Berlín opened an eco-lodge as part of the Safari Llanero, a project led by the Casanare Chamber of Commerce with Swiss cooperation to strengthen wildlife-watching tourism.
©2019 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2024). Source: IUCN Red List
