Ruddy Turnstones are regularly seen around docks and beaches and are often "guests" at Aruba's open-air restaurants. Photo Jeff Wells.

A plump, short-legged shorebird with a rusty patchwork pattern above, a white belly, dark upper breast, and orangey legs. Seeing these shorebirds brazenly scurrying under—even on—the tables for leftovers at the open-air restaurants of the resorts, it’s hard to believe they actually breed in the desolate regions of the Arctic. Look for turnstones also scuttling along the rock outcroppings of beaches and busying about on fishing piers.

Watch a short video clips of Ruddy Turnstones "foraging" at the Tamarijn Aruba Beach resort.

Here is another video of Ruddy Turnstones begging for food at the restaurant on the Pelican Pier near the shuttle boat to DePalm's glass-bottomed boat tour.