Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) - HBW 3, p. 523
French: Bécasseau de Baird
German: Bairdstrandläufer
Spanish: Correlimos de Baird
Taxonomy: Actodromus Bairdii Coues, 1861, Great Slave Lake, Canada.
Formerly placed in genus Erolia or alternatively in Pisobia. Monotypic.
Distribution: Wrangel I and Chukotskiy Peninsula E across N Alaska and N Canada to Ellesmere I, N Baffin I and NW Greenland. Winters in W & S South America.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A juvenile foraging in a shallow slow moving part of a river that feeds a mixed fresh and saltwater estuary. Locality Santa Clara River Estuary, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 25 September 2009 2 years ago 43 sec 5 -
A juvenile bird foraging in a fresh water lagoon, with a Least Sandpiper in the background Locality Ventura, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 31 July 2001 4 years ago 21 sec 4.7 -
A juvenile bird scratching and preening Locality Ventura, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 31 July 2001 4 years ago 21 sec 4.6 -
A juvenile foraging on the mud Locality California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 30 September 2005 5 years ago 14 sec 4.5 -
A juvenile bird foraging in an exposed area of a fresh water lagoon Locality Ventura, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 31 July 2001 4 years ago 19 sec 4.4 -
A juvenile foraging in shallow water among salt marsh pickle-weed. Locality Ventura, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 11 September 2011 21 weeks ago 31 sec 4
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On kelp
Locality Île aux Basques, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 7 September 2011 22 weeks ago 4.4 -
On kelp
Locality Île aux Basques, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 8 September 2011 22 weeks ago 4.1 -
first winter
Locality Patagonia, Argentina
Hans-Georg Folz 27 October 2011 9 weeks ago 4 -
A standing bird.
Locality Montmagny, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 14 September 2008 1 year ago 3.9 -
Individual from a small flock which dropped into a salt pan playa which had water in it - the playa is often dry
Locality Andrews County, Texas, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 16 October 2008 1 year ago 3.8 -
Standing along the edge of a salt pan playa
Locality Andrews County, Texas, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 16 October 2008 1 year ago 3.7
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A flock feeding at the shore of a lagoon Locality Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
(Monotypic species)
Santiago Imberti 24 October 2005 1 year ago 4
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