turnstone
Arenaria interpres

Small dark wader of rocky coastlines, feeding by turning over stones

Habitat: rocky pools, beaches and estuaries

Passage migrant and winter visitor to the UK; breeds coastal Scandinavia

Chestnut and black upperparts, black-and-white face pattern

Characteristic habit of turning stones, also picking and probing at surface

Eats invertebrates

Nest is a scrape on ground

1 Brood May to July; 4 eggs greenish blotched brown