Broad-billed Sandpiper

Calidris falcinellus (Pontoppidan, 1763)

Broad-billed Sandpiper, Calidris falcinellus, breeds patchily across low Arctic to subarctic tundra bogs in the northern Palearctic, from Scandinavia to the Kanin Peninsula in north-west Russia, and from the Taimyr Peninsula in north-west Siberia to the Lena and Kolyma rivers in north-east Siberia. Outside the breeding season it occurs in Africa, the Oriental Region and Australasia, on Paleotropical coasts, in eastern Africa, around the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, through south-east Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago, to southern New Guinea and Australia except the south-west, south-central and Tasmania. It is a sandpiper in the family Scolopacidae.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

Palearctic: patchily in low Arctic to subarctic tundra bogs of n Palearctic: Scandinavia to Kanin Pen. (nw Russia); Taimyr Pen. (nw Siberia) and Lena to Kolyma rivers (ne Siberia)

Nonbreeding range

Africa, Oriental Region, Australasia: Paleotropical coasts, e Africa, Red Sea and Persian Gulf through se Asia, Indonesian Arch., s New Guinea and Australia (except sw, sc, Tasmania)