Stilt sandpipers winter in the Caribbean, Central America and South America, and spend the summers in North America where they breed. There were twenty or thirty on Grand Étang in Terres Basses a couple days ago. As their name suggests, they look like other sandpipers but have very long legs. Like many shorebirds, they have long bills, and use them to probe the mud for snails and crustaceans that they eat.
