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insects and some seeds. At other times of year, they eat mollusks and crustaceans found along the surf line on rocky coasts and are usually found in small flocks, often with turnstones.

The song is a whistled tee tee tee.

Taxonomy

The surfbird was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in

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