BirdUp · Species
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Calidris subruficollis(Vieillot, 1819)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The buff-breasted sandpiper is a small shorebird. The species name subruficollis is from Latin subrufus, "reddish" and collis, "-necked/-throated". It is a calidrid sandpiper.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : high Arctic dry coastal tundra of far north-east Palearctic and north Nearctic: north Chukotka east from Wrangel I. (north of north-east Siberia), Alaskan North Slope from Pt. Barrow east through north-east Canada, including Arctic is. from Banks to Devon is. (north-east Canada)
- Non-breeding range
- South-east SA : coastal and inland grassland of subtropical south Neotropics: south-east Brazil, Uruguay and north and central Argentina; prone to extreme vagrancy worldwide
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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