Baird's Sandpiper

Calidris bairdii (Coues, 1861)

Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii, breeds in the high Arctic of North America and the Palearctic, from Wrangel Island and far north-east Siberia through Alaska, Canada, the Arctic islands, and north-west Greenland. In the non-breeding season it is found in western and southern South America, inland and on coasts, from southern Peru through Chile to central and southern Argentina. It is a small shorebird with long wings that reach beyond the tail when it stands, a useful feature for telling it apart from similar small waders.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

North America, Palearctic: high Arctic (locally to subarctic) dry tundra: Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia and e Chukotskiy Pen. (far ne Siberia), n, c Alaska, n Canada including Arctic islands from Banks to Ellesmere and Baffin is. and nw Greenland

Nonbreeding range

w, s SA : inland including montane and coastal from s Peru through Chile and c, s Argentina