BirdUp · Species
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Calidris falcinellus(Pontoppidan, 1763)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The broad-billed sandpiper is a small wading bird. The scientific specific name falcinellus is the diminutive from Latin falx, falcis, "a small sickle". It was formerly treated in its own monospecific genus Limicola, but this was found to be embedded within the wider genus Calidris, into which it was transferred in 2004.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Patchily in low Arctic to subarctic tundra bogs of north Palearctic: Scandinavia to Kanin Pen. (north-west Russia); Taimyr Pen. (north-west Siberia) and Lena to Kolyma rivers (north-east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- AF, OR, AU : Paleotropical coasts, east Africa, Red Sea and Persian Gulf through south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., south New Guinea and Australia (except south-west, south-central, Tasmania)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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