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Black Turnstone (Strepsilas melanocephala, Vigors) 1853 Bird Stock Image Plate 7

Shorebird in Right-facing Profile with Dark Speckled Plumage and White Belly – Rocky Shore, Grasses, Distant Water


A small shorebird with a slender bill and patterned black, gray, and white feathers walks on cracked, rocky ground beside the sea. Sparse grasses and low shrubs frame the foreground, with a calm horizon in muted tones.

  • License Info
  • Resolution: 7594 x 10009 300dpi
  • Year of Print: 1853
  • Artist: USPRR Surveys
  • bill
  • Bird
  • calm water
  • Coast
  • coastal bird
  • coastal vegetation
  • cracked ground
  • distant horizon
  • feather
  • field guide style
  • Frame
  • full body
  • Grasses
  • ground level scene
  • Legs
  • long slender bill
  • muted
  • muted tones
  • natural history style
  • Ocean
  • patterned plumage
  • plumage
  • pointed beak
  • Profile
  • right-facing profile
  • Rocks
  • rocky shore
  • shore habitat
  • shorebird
  • Shoreline
  • Shrubs
  • side view
  • speckled feathers
  • tidal flat
  • wader
  • white belly

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