We've been talking a lot about shorebirds in April because with so many species coming, going, and passing through, this is really shorebird season. Here we're talking about another shorebird, the Willet. The Willet is another one of those shorebirds that winters along the shore, in this case all over the coasts of the United States, Mexico and Central America. In the spring, the breeding birds along the coast in the West bug out to a very well defined area in northeast California, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Alberta and Saskatchewan. You can see this movement along the West Coast in the eBird maps comparing March and April. One of the things we really love about the Willet is that while standing it looks like just another grayish shorebird, but when it opens its wings it reveals an elegant wing plumage of white and black. (top photo by Lee Karney/USFWS; bottom by Peter LaTourrette)