Curlew Sandpiper

Calidris ferruginea(Pontoppidan, 1763)

Critically EndangeredNative

Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris

Conservation: Critically Endangered
Commonness: Rare
Best seen: Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The curlew sandpiper is a small migratory wader. It is a long-distance migrant, breeding in the bogs and coastal lowlands of the Siberian Arctic, arriving there in June and staying to August or September. After breeding season, it migrates south throughout Europe and Asia to spend the winter, mainly in Africa but also along the coasts of Australasia and Southeast Asia; occupying tidal mudflats and saltpans.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range: Drier low Arctic tundra of north-central and north-east Palearctic: north-west Siberia from Yamal Pen. to north-west Chukotskiy Pen. (north-east Siberia), and New Siberian Is. (north of north-central Siberia)
Non-breeding range: AF, OR, AU : inland and coastal wetlands of Paleotropics: south Europe, Cape Verde Is. (south Macaronesia, west of west Africa), Africa, Malagasy region, through south and south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., south-east China, Taiwan, Philippines, south New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania, Bismarck Arch., north Solomon Is., New Caledonia and north New Zealand; prone to extreme vagrancy

03 · When