ATDDTA(11) Turnstone [309:03]

[Keith]

This bird, which, in its full vernal dress, is one of the most  
beautiful of its family, is found along the southern coasts of the  
United States during winter, from North Carolina to the mouth of the  
Sabine river, in considerable numbers, although perhaps as many  
travel at that season into Texas and Mexico, where I observed it on  
its journey eastward, from the beginning of April to the end of May,  
1837. I procured many specimens in the course of my rambles along the  
shores of the Florida Keys, and in the neighbourhood of St.  
Augustine, and have met with it in May and June, as well as in  
September and October, in almost every part of our maritime shores,  
from Maine to Maryland. On the coast of Labrador I looked for it in  
vain, although Dr. RICHARDSON mentions their arrival at their  
breeding quarters on the shores of Hudson's Bay and the Arctic Sea up  
to the seventy-fifth parallel.
   http://www.audubon.org/bird/BoA/F35_G3a.html

Black Turnstone is one of the characteristic shorebirds of the  
Pacific Coast, often seen foraging for invertebrates in the rocky  
intertidal zone along with its fellow "rockpipers"--Ruddy Turnstone,  
Wandering Tattler, Surfbird, and Rock Sandpiper.
   http://www.audubon2.org/webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=39