Upland Sandpiper

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Upland sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Identification Tips:
Length: 10 inches
Long-legged, small-headed, long-necked shorebird of grasslands
Legs yellow
Thin, short bill
Very large dark eye stands out against pale face ...

Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicauda
The Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) is a long-legged, big-eyed, short-billed shorebird which nests in the prairie grasslands of the central United States and much of Canada.

The upland sandpiper eats a wide-variety of invertebrates including grasshoppers, crickets, weevils, beetles, moths, ants, flies, bugs, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, snails and earthworms. It also eats some grains and seeds.

Upland Sandpiper
(Bartramia longicauda)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2002
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Likely but not confirmed ...

Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein)
Status Rare transient. The first record was a bird collected on Sable Island in 1868 (Gilpin 1882a), and there were only five more reports up to 1957.

Upland Sandpiper
Photo from the Breeding Bird Survey
Last updated 3/18/96
Upland Sandpiper are common mirgants on the UTC. They will be found in fields, pastures, and prairies.

Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
Historically nesting in native Michigan prairies and burnt meadows, ...

Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda. Fairly common in fall, uncommon in spring and summer in Gulf Coast and Inland Coastal Plain regions. In Mountain and Tennessee Valley regions, uncommon to rare in spring, fall, and summer.

Upland Sandpiper
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Western Sandpiper
Summer Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...

The Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) is an odd bird which is the closest relative of the curlews (Thomas, 2004). It is distinguished from them by its yellow legs, long tail, and shorter, less curved bill.
References ...

8563 Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
Pacific Black Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Pacific Blue Eye habitat
Pacific Blue Eye, Pseudomugil signifer
Pacific Blue Eye, Pseudomugil signifer Kner, 1865
Pacific Blue Eyes
Pacific Collections ...

Nest sites were characterized for Piping Plover, Killdeer, American Avocet, Willet, Upland Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit, Common Snipe, and Wilson's Phalarope at Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Refuge, southcentral Saskatchewan.

Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda (A)
Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs, Tringa flavipes
Solitary Sandpiper, Tringa solitaria
Spotted Sandpiper, Tringa macularia
Willet, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus ...

Bison grazing in Flint Hills of Kansas increased abundance of Upland Sandpipers, Grasshopper Sparrows and together with the effects of recent prescribed burnings, lowered numbers of Dickcissel. (Powell 2006) ...

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)
American Woodcock (PR) ...

BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER.
[Upland Sandpiper.]
TRINGA BARTRAMIA, Wils.
[Bartramia longicauda.] ...

White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
Juvenile Least Sandpipers Calidris minutilla
Uppies in the Mist, or, Upland Sandpipers at Blue Chip Farm
The Power of Purpose ...

used to be the Eilson Vistor Center, I saw the Long-tailed Jaeger flying over the road. Later in the summer I got off the bus at Fish Creek and walked back toward the entrance. I had a Golden Plover with a chick and an Upland Sandpiper ...

Potential prey items included thirteen-lined ground squirrels (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), plains pocket gophers (Geomys bursarius), mountain cottontails (Sylvilagus nuttallii), upland sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda), ...

Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) ...

See also: Sandpiper, Plover, Shorebird, Warbler, Oyster