- Calidris fuscicollis
Identification
15–18 cm (6-7 in)
Breeding
- Dark brown upperparts
- White underparts
- Brown breast streaking
- White rump
- Streaked flanks
- White stripe supercilium
- Black legs
- Small thin dark bill with yellow base to lower mandible
- Wings extend beyond the tip of the tail
Winter
- Pale grey upperparts
Distribution
Arctic islands in Canada and Alaska, wintering in northern South America.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Breeds in well vegetated marshy tundra. Forages in mud flats outside of the breeding season.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists almost entirely of invertebrates, such as adult and larval insects, grasshoppers, beetles, craneflies, spiders. They also take some small molluscs and other crustaceans.
Breeding
Polygynous. They nest on the ground.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-rumped Sandpiper. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-rumped_Sandpiper
External Links
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