{"id":24612,"date":"2012-10-30T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:26","slug":"ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/waders\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae. It is a highly migratory bird, breeding in northern parts of Eurasia and North America and flying south to winter on coastlines almost worldwide. It is the only species of turnstone in much of its range and is often known simply as Turnstone.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Ruddy Turnstone\u00a0<i>Arenaria\u00a0interpres<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-171-24612\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1180\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-4.jpg\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/thumbs\/thumbs_ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1179\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-3.jpg\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/thumbs\/thumbs_ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1178\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-2.jpg\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/thumbs\/thumbs_ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1177\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-1.jpg\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) at Refugio De Aves De Boqueron, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres\/thumbs\/thumbs_ruddy-turnstone-arenaria-interpres-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae. It is a highly migratory bird, breeding in northern parts of Eurasia and North America and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":837571,"parent":17620,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1681,1680],"class_list":["post-24612","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arenaria-interpres","tag-ruddy-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24612\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}