What is Willet?

and Willet is Shorebird and a member of the Sandpiper family. He accepts his name from his loud, distinctive call that sounds unclear like spoken syllables "pill-in". The indigenous station Willet is located in the northern United States and extends to South Canada. Willets prefer to live near the water and usually occur in colonies around the coastal beaches, as well as in the inland lakes and swamps. These birds were once threatened by severe hunting in some areas of North America, but most species seem to reflect back from their earlier decline.

Adult Willet has gray legs and gray feathers on the upper body. His breasts and abdomen are white or lighter gray. This drab color helps to mask the bird in his preferred habitat. On the underside of Willet's wings, feathers are more pronounced, with distinctive stripes alternating white and black. This feathers are only visible when the bird is in flight. Juveniles looks very much like their older except that their feathers are brown than gray.

Willets Mate for a lifetime and usually their reproductive period is at the end of winter or early spring. Birds generally gather in colonies so that women can nest in early spring. Females choose remote places for their nests, which usually occur in clusters of grass or small cavities in the ground, that females are filled with grass, weeds and shells. Once the eggs are laid, the male and the woman alternate by incubation for about three weeks, when the eggs hatch. Willet Chicks are fully mobile and able to get food for yourself shortly after birth and achieve complete maturity after about a month.

Willet's diet consists mainly of sea insects and worms, small fish and crabs. Birds sometimes dinner for vegetable masses of grass or seeds. Birds usually get their prey by pulling it out of the surface of a shallow water or using their long tapering accounts to root insects or other ZVssin living under wet sand or mud.

Willets prefer to live in large groups or colonies. Birds will go separately to look for food until they regrouped. Their significant cry of the "pill-in" often sounds like an alarm when birds are desperate. They intensively protect their territory and become very aggressive to other birds who interfere with their feeding or nesting areas.