Stilt sandpiper

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Stilt sandpiper

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris
Species:
C. himantopus
Binomial name
Calidris himantopus
(Bonaparte, 1826)
Synonyms

Micropalama himantopus

The stilt sandpiper (Calidris himantopus) is a small shorebird. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus name kalidris or skalidris is a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific himantopus means "strap foot" or "thong foot".[2]

Taxonomy

This sandpiper bears some resemblance to the smaller calidrid

Erolia
.

Range & habitat

The stilt sandpiper breeds in the open arctic tundra of North America. It is a long-distance migrant, wintering mainly in northern South America. It occurs as a rare vagrant in western Europe, Japan and northern Australia.[5]

Breeding

This species nests on the ground, laying three or four eggs. The male has a display flight. Outside the

breeding season
, this bird is normally found on inland waters, rather than open coasts.

Stilt sandpiper in Quintana, Texas

Description

This species resembles the curlew sandpiper in its curved bill, long neck, pale

scientific names. It also lacks an obvious wing bar in flight. Breeding adults are distinctive, heavily barred beneath, and with reddish patches above and below the supercilium. The back is brown with darker feather centres. Winter plumage
is basically gray above and white below. Juvenile stilt sandpipers resemble the adults in their strong head pattern and brownish back, but they are not barred below, and show white fringes on the back feathering.

Measurements:

Diet

These birds forage on muddy, picking up food by sight, often jabbing like the

leaves and roots of aquatic plants.[8]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22693437A93407752.en
    . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  3. PMID 15329156
    .
  4. The Wilson Bulletin
    . 85 (2): 115–147.
  5. ISBN 0-395-60237-8
    .
  6. ^ a b "Stilt Sandpiper Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology". www.allaboutbirds.org. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  7. ^ Oiseaux.net. "Bécasseau à échasses - Calidris himantopus - Stilt Sandpiper". www.oiseaux.net. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  8. ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/sites/default/files/lifesciences/documents/ogatt/Calidris%20himantopus_Stilt%20sandpiper.pdf [bare URL PDF]

External links

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