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Baird's Sandpiper
Calidris bairdii(Coues, 1861)
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Baird's sandpiper is a small shorebird. It is among those Calidris species which were formerly sometimes included in the genus Erolia, which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The English name and specific bairdii commemorate Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19th-century naturalist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : high Arctic (locally to subarctic) dry tundra: Wrangel I. (north of north-east Siberia and east Chukotskiy Pen. (far north-east Siberia), north and central Alaska, north Canada including Arctic islands from Banks to Ellesmere and Baffin is. and north-west Greenland
- Non-breeding range
- West and south SA : inland including montane and coastal from south Peru through Chile and central and south Argentina
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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