Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
Just as it's good to see a Solitary Sandpiper on its own, its good to see a Spotted Sandpiper with spots.
Spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia
Identification Tips:
Length: 6.25 inches
Fairly small, short-legged shorebird
Yellowish or pinkish legs
White wingstripe visible in flight
Teeters tail when feeding and walking ...
SPOTTED SANDPIPER FACTS
Description
The Spotted Sandpiper is a medium-sized shorebird. It is brown above with thin white eye stripe. The underside is white with prominent round black spots. The tail is dark with white on the outside.
Song: Spotted Sandpiper Song
Migration: Summers throughout much of the United States and Canada. Winters along North American coasts, the extreme southern United States, down through much of South America.
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularia
The Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) breeds across most of North America and winters across the southern states and into Mexico.
The spotted sandpiper probes for a variety of insects and other small invertebrates including fly larvae, grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, spiders, worms, crustaceans and mollusks. It may also catch insects in the air.
Polyandry in Spotted Sandpiper; Polyandry; Mice and Ground-nesting Birds; Spacing of Wintering Shorebirds.
REFERENCES:
Cramp and Simmons, 1983; Oring et al., 1983.
Spotted Sandpiper
(Actitis macularius)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularia (Linnaeus)
Status Summer resident. A few arrive in late April (average 3 May, earliest 15 April, apart from one exceptionally early bird on 8 April 1979).
SPOTTED SANDPIPER, OR TATLER.
[Spotted Sandpiper.]
TOTANUS MACULARIUS, Wils.
[Actitis macularius.] ...
Spotted Sandpiper
It's May, and the molt into breeding plumage is largely complete for many birds, and a lot of these have taken off to their breeding grounds.
Spotted Sandpiper in winter plumage
[edit] Ecology
It is a gregarious bird and is seen in large flocks, and has the distinctive stiff-winged flight, low over the water, of Actitis waders.
Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia. Historical breeder. Common in spring, late summer, and fall, and uncommon to rare in winter in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, common in spring, late summer, and fall, and rare in winter.
Spotted Sandpiper
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Sanderling
Calidris alba
Sanderlings are known for their odd behavior of running after and away from waves as they crash on the shores. They eat whatever wildlife remains on the beach.
Spotted Sandpiper
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Western Sandpiper
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY 16 Apr ...
There were many Ruddy Turnstones and at least one Spotted Sandpiper on the Salisbury jetty. We also had an early Harbor Seal. Upon leaving the harbor, we went to Jeffries Ledge, and the marine mammal show was fantastic.
Spotted Sandpiper (T)
Upland Sandpiper (T)
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) ...
Hatch, D. R. M. 1971. Brown-headed Cowbird parasitism on Spotted Sandpiper and Wilson's Phalarope. Blue Jay 29:17-18.
Higgins, K. F. 1975. Shorebird and game bird nests in North Dakota croplands. Wildlife Society Bulletin 3:176-179.
The sandpipers most frequently seen away from shorelines are the
spotted sandpiper of North America, whose white under parts bear
black spots only in spring and summer.
Picture Sandpipers ...
The common sandpiper has a brown upper body and a white underside. When at rest its wingtips reach halfway back to its tail. The bird is a European and Asian species, but is closely related to the similar-looking spotted sandpiper of the Americas.
Actitis macularia - Spotted Sandpiper
Stercorariidae - Jaegers, Skuas
Stercorarius
Stercorarius pomarinus - Pomarine Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticus - Arctic Skua
Stercorarius longicaudus - Long-tailed Jaeger ...
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) ...
macularius, the " Peetweet," or Spotted Sandpiper, so called from its usual cry, or from the almost circular marks which spot its lower plumage.
 See also: Sandpiper, Plover, Warbler, Shorebird, Purple
  
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