| Common Name: | Willet | | Scientific Name: | Catoptrophorus semipalmatus | | Family: | Scolopacidae (Sandpipers) | | Area: | Fields Landing - Humboldt Bay, California | | Date: | October 25, 2011 | 
Willets are large members of the Sandpiper Family, dull in color, with long straight thick bills. | | Reference: | National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America by Dunn & Alderfer |
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