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This Chennai visitor does not grant birders an easy audience
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A Terek Sandpiper. Photo: Sundaravel Palanivelu
The Terek Sandpiper’s forehead is a cliff dressed in feathers. The bird would still be headbutted out of a “Mr. Steep Forehead” contest. The Pied Avocet, also a Chennai migrant, is enough to dash its hopes. Placed next to the Avocet’s forehead, Mount Thor with its daunting cliff is just a hopelessly flat-lined ECG lead.
The Terek Sandpiper’s more attention-grabbing feature is its upcurved bill. Here again, the Pied Avocet is comfortably placed above the competition. The Terek Sandpiper’s nickname Avocet Sandpiper in fact settles the matter, announcing who gets the better of the other in the two-feature contest.