Least Sandpiper Photos
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Least sandpiper Calidris minutilla
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Length: 4.75 inches
Very small shorebird
Short, thin, dark bill slightly decurved
Yellow legs
Thin, white wing stripe
Black line on rump extends onto tail
Sexes similar ...
Least Sandpiper
Adult breeding
Similar Species
Semipalmated Sandpiper similar, but more gray on back, less marked on chest, and with black legs.
Western Sandpiper less marked on chest, and with black legs.
Least Sandpiper
Relatives in same Genus
Sanderling (C. alba)
Dunlin (C. alpina)
Western Sandpiper (C. mauri)
Pectoral Sandpiper (C. melanotos)
Rock Sandpiper (C. ptilocnemis) ...
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
The Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) breeds widely across northern Canada and Alaska and winters across the southern United States and Mexico. It can be one of our most abundant shorebirds.
Least Sandpiper
(Calidris minutilla)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a common spring and fall migrant on mudflats by lakes and ponds.
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla(Vieillot)
Status Common transient, rare and local in summer. Breeds.
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla - Adult in breeding plumage
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Least Sandpipers are found in coastal and inland wetlands. They often forage in small flocks in grassy areas at the water's edge.
Western Sandpipers inhabit beaches and mudflats where they forage in shallow water and by probing in the mud.
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla. Fairly common in winter, common in spring and fall, occasional in early summer, and uncommon in late summer in Gulf Coast region.
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus ...
Least Sandpiper
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Pectoral Sandpiper
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Like a Least Sandpiper on steroids, Pectoral Sandpipers are fairly common migrants in North Carolina, particularly at the coast. Flock sometimes may be seen inland when droughts draw down lake levels, exposing mudflats.
Photos include: Least Sandpipers, American Avocet, male Shoveler, male Green-Winged Teal, male Cinnamon Teal.
Walter Kitundu
Patch: Seven months in the life of an urban Red-Tailed Hawk ...
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan
White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, 21 May ...
Calidris minutilla - Least Sandpiper (photo)
Calidris bairdii - Baird's Sandpiper
Calidris mauri - Western Sandpiper
Limicola
Limicola falcinellus - Broad-billed Sandpiper
Micropalama
Micropalama himantopus - Stilt Sandpiper ...
Appearance Description Similar in appearance to Least Sandpipers and Western Sandpipers, the Semipalmated can usually be distinguished with a little study.
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) ...
The smallest member of this group is the Least Sandpiper, small adults of which can weigh as little as 15.5 grams and measure just over 13 cm (5 inches).
LITTLE SANDPIPER.
[Least Sandpiper.]
TRINGA PUSILLA, Wils.
[Calidris minutilla.] ...
Semi-palmated Sandpiper (T)
Western Sandpiper (T)
Least Sandpiper (T)
White-rumped Sandpiper (T)
Pectoral Sandpiper (T)
Dunlin (T)
Short-billed Dowitcher (T)
Wilson's Snipe (WR)
American Woodcock (PR) ...
Stangel (1983) witnessed least sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) feeding on larvae in a Massachusetts pond (Petranka 1998a). Petranka et al. (1998) found that wood frog tadpoles can be a major predator of spotted salamander embryos ...
 See also: Sandpiper, Plover, Shorebird, Phalarope, Western Sandpiper
  
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