Least Sandpiper – Calidris minutilla (excerpt)
Description: The Least Sandpiper is a small shorebird, about the size of a sparrow, with brownish upper parts, white lower parts streaked with brown on the chest. They have yellow legs and a short, thin, black bill.
Interesting Tidbit: The Least Sandpiper is the smallest shorebird in the world, weighing in at only 1 ounce. Yet, they can fly nonstop for 1800-2500 miles during migration.
To Say the Least
is to say the smallest –
is to say that’s no twitch of the eye
It’s like saying there exists
in the world of peeps
some greater, faster shoreline speedwalker.
To spot the leasts –
time-lapse stitchers of the strand
– to hear their pin-piped preet
is to count the least
among us
~ Katy E. Ellis
