Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)

Other Names (World)
Semipalmated Sandpiper, Sand Peep

Family
Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Size
13 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia (Asian) (B), St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (NB), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Albania, Denmark, Djibouti, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Western and northern Alaska and northern Canada. Winters on Pacific coast from southern Mexico to southern Peru, and on Atlantic coast from Yucatan and West Indies to central Argentina.

Population
Estimated population is 4,000,000 - 5,000,000 (2010).

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (70)...)

Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) [XC841578]
by Daniel Lane from Quivera NWR - Little Salt Marsh, Stafford County, Kansas, United States (call)

Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) [XC556179]
by Stanislas Wroza from Praia da Requenguela, Brazil (chamado)

Subspecies
Formerly placed in genus Ereunetes with Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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