The Whimbrel is normally associated with open water but this bird demonstartes that it can search for food in other habitats. In Sweden, Whimbrels breed up in the bare mountain region. This specimen, I encountered near a coffee farm in the Santa Cruz highlands. The Whimbrel usually nests in the north, in America as well as in Eurasia. In winter it migrates south, for example to Africa or South America. This bird, by the way, shows one of the characteristic hallmarks of the Whimbrel - the white "parting in the middle".