Snipes, Sandpipers 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 3 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 5 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 5 years ago 21 sec 4.6 -
feeding along water's edge Locality Chaxa Lagoon, Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta Region, Chile (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 30 November 2011 4 weeks ago 13 sec 4.5 -
A juvenile foraging on the mud Locality California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 30 September 2005 6 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 5 years ago 19 sec 4.4
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On kelp
Locality Île aux Basques, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 7 September 2011 1 year ago 4.3 -
On kelp
Locality Île aux Basques, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 8 September 2011 1 year ago 4.1 -
A bird on the shore of a lagoon
Locality El Coyte, Chubut Province, Argentina
Roberto Pujana 29 January 2013 13 weeks ago 4 -
first winter
Locality Patagonia, Argentina
Hans-Georg Folz 27 October 2011 1 year ago 4 -
A standing bird.
Locality Montmagny, Quebec, Canada
Guy Poisson 14 September 2008 2 years ago 3.9 -
Juvenile feeding in shallow pool on Chesterman Beach.
Locality Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada (Monotypic species)
Jeremy Gatten 11 September 2012 24 weeks ago 3.8
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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 3 years ago 4
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