Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Calidris subruficollis (Vieillot, 1819)

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Calidris subruficollis, breeds in the high Arctic dry coastal tundra of North America and the far north of the Palearctic, including Chukotka, Wrangel Island, the Alaskan North Slope and Arctic islands from Banks to Devon. It spends the non-breeding season in coastal and inland grassland in south-eastern South America, especially south-eastern Brazil, Uruguay and northern and central Argentina. A sandpiper of the family Scolopacidae, it is also known for extreme vagrancy worldwide.

Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes
Breeding range: North America, Palearctic: high Arctic dry coastal tundra of far ne Palearctic and n Nearctic: n Chukotka e from Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia), Alaskan North Slope from Pt. Barrow e through ne Canada, including Arctic is. from Banks to Devon is. (ne Canada)
Nonbreeding range: se SA : coastal and inland grassland of subtropical s Neotropics: se Brazil, Uruguay and n, c Argentina; prone to extreme vagrancy worldwide