<i>Tringa semipalmata</i>
Length: 13.5-16.5"
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The Willet is a common visitor to the Bay Area in the winter.
They look quite gray and drab until they take off.
Then the underside of their black-and-white wings is on display.
A flock of them is quite spectacular.
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Willets mainly eat aquatic insects and other invertebrates.
Along the coast they also eat crabs, molluscs, and small fish.
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