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Oct. 11, 2006: A rare bird sighting for Morro Bay is the Ruff shown here. Photos here are by Mike Baird, bairdphotos.com Canon 5D w/ 300mmIS w/ 2.0X extender, tripod, ISO 250. Taken from the south side of the Morro Creek outlet to the ocean (in the grassy/muddy area upstream from the main pond) in Morro Bay, CA 10-11-06. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruff The Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is a medium-sized wader. Their breeding habitat is bogs, marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in northern Europe and Russia. Ruff are migratory, wintering in southern and western Europe, Africa and India. They are highly gregarious, with a wintering flock of 1 million birds reported in Senegal. This species is a rare migrant to North America.