Semipalmated Sandpiper Photos
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Semipalmated sandpiper Calidris pusilla
Identification Tips:
Length: 5 inches
Very small shorebird
Short, thin, dark bill not obviously thinner at tip than at base
Dark legs
Thin, white wing stripe
Black line on rump extends onto tail ...
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusilla
The Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is one of the small shorebirds collectively referred to as "peeps" or "stints".
Semipalmated Sandpiper Behaviour
No observations regarding Semipalmated Sandpiper behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Semipalmated Sandpipers ...
The semipalmated sandpiper eats seeds and aquatic invertebrates.
Life Cycle Males arrive on the arctic breeding grounds in late May, usually a few days before the females.
Semipalmated Sandpiper
(Calidris pusilla)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2007
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
After the breeding season, Semipalmated Sandpipers move thousands of miles south.
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusilla (Linnaeus)
Status Common transient. It is an uncommon spring migrant, generally appearing by mid-May (average 13 May, earliest 23 April).
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.
[Semipalmated Sandpiper.]
TRINGA SEMIPALMATA, Wils.
[Calidris pusilla.] ...
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia ...
Semipalmated Sandpiper courtesy Rónán McLaughlin
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Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla. Common in spring, fairly common to common in late summer and fall, and occasional in early summer in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, fairly common in spring and fall, and uncommon in late summer.
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Summer Sighting Information: abundant
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Solitary Sandpiper
Summer Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Semipalmated Sandpiper - several on Plymouth Beach
Laughing Gull - present
Herring Gull - present ...
Western Semipalmated Sandpiper
Bird Family :
Tringinae - Godwits, curlews, shanks, sandpipers, tattlers, turnstones, dowitchers, knots,stints, dunlin, ruff, & phalaropes ...
Semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
Brown booby (Sula leucogaster)
Bridled tern (Sterna anaethetus)
Sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus)
Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Red-footed booby (Sula sula) ...
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) ...
 See also: Sandpiper, Knot, Snipe, Stilt, Curlew
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