BirdUp · Species
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos(Linnaeus, 1758)
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Actitis
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The common sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper, make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a member of the closely related genus Tringa.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Widespread, subarctic to temperate inland waterbody margins of Palearctic: British Isles north to Scandinavia south to Iberian Pen., east through temperate Russia to east-central Chukotskiy Pen. (north-east Russia), south from Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, central Asia to Kashmir (north-west Himalayas), north Mongolia, north-east China and Japan
- Non-breeding range
- AF, OR, AU, also Middle East : tropical to subtropical inland and coastal waterbodies of Paleotropics: south-west Europe, south Macaronesia (north-west of west Africa), Africa, Malagasy region, south Middle East, south and south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., Philippines, Taiwan, east China, south Japan, New Guinea, Australia, Bismarck Arch. to Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Micronesia
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
6 photos
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