Buff-breasted Sandpiper
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Buff-breasted Sandpipers appear to be undergoing a slow decline, but the causes are not clear. Market hunting went unchecked in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Buff-breasted Sandpiper prefers the dry open ground of prairies and open agricultural fields rather than the shorelines and mudflats that many sandpipers prefer.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2005
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Tryngites subruficollis (Vieillot)
Status Uncommon transient. Gilpin (1882a) mentions a specimen, and Downs (1888) considered it as an uncommon fall migrant but may have confused it with the Red Knot (McLaren 1985).
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
Described by: Vieillot (1819)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER.
[Buff-breasted Sandpiper.]
TRINGA RUFESCENS, Vieill.
[Tryngities subruficollis.] ...
Buff-breasted Sandpiper courtesy Rónán McLaughlin
At least four other Amercian Golden Plovers reached our shores courtesy of Irene as did a single Spotted Sandpiper and an American Black Tern.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper has a similar shape, but is much smaller and has a plain buff face and underparts, with spots rather than chevrons on sides of neck and breast, a shorter tail, and bright silvery wing linings.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis. Fairly common in fall, and uncommon in spring in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, uncommon in fall and occasional in spring. Found in dry, short grasslands, pastures, plowed fields, and on mudflats.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Summer Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Curlew Sandpiper
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
The buff-breasted sandpiper may be moved to the calidrids genus or moved with some of those sandpipers to a new genus.
Photographed by: 1) Dominic_Sherony 2, 3) Tim Lenz ...
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Dunlin (Calidris allpina)
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) ...
Buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
Common fan-footed gecko (Ptyodactylus hasselquistii)
Green hairstreak (Callophrys rubi)
Shorea (Shorea ovalifolia)
Great hornbill (Buceros bicornis)
Vestal cuckoo bee (Bombus vestalis) ...
Tryngites subruficollis - Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Philomachus
Philomachus pugnax - Ruff
Gallinago
Gallinago gallinago - Common Snipe (photo)
Scolopax
Scolopax rusticola - Eurasian Woodcock
Numenius ...
Blue Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting, Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Red-shouldered Hawk on this page.
Photos by Don Bruschera ...
Its chunky body, long thin neck and with a large head and large eyes give it a "pigeon-headed" look. It also has a long tail for a sandpiper. The buff breast mottled with brown distinguish it from the Buff-breasted Sandpiper (clear buffy breast).
 See also: Sandpiper, Plover, Avocet, Sanderling, Oystercatcher
  
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