Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
French: Chevalier guignette German: Flußuferläufer Spanish: Andarríos Chico
Other common names: Eurasian Sandpiper
Taxonomy:
Tringa Hypoleucos Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Sometimes placed in genus Tringa. Occasionally considered conspecific with A. macularia. Monotypic.
Distribution: Europe E across C Asia to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Japan. Winters from W Europe and Africa through Middle East and S Asia to Indonesia and Australia; irregularly on islands of W Pacific.
- Least Concern
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Two birds foraging together along the shore of a pond Parc del Foix, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Monotypic species)
Pere Sugranyes 31 March 2006 2 years ago 26 sec 4.8 -
A bird foraging at the water's edge Ziway Lake, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 3 years ago 45 sec 4.4 -
A bird feeding on a lake with small waves Mburo Lake National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 13 September 2006 2 years ago 42 sec 4.3 -
An adult running along vegetable debris at a lake's edge Burgenland State, Austria (Monotypic species)
Malcolm Mark Swan 22 May 2006 2 years ago 28 sec 4.2 -
A bird foraging at the water's edge Ziway Lake, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 3 years ago 45 sec 4 -
A bird on the ground Nusa Dua, Bali (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Philip Griffin 4 September 2005 3 years ago 16 sec 4
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A bird standing on a rock Axios Delta, Greece
Theo Mamais 1 July 2004 50 weeks ago 3.6 -
A bird ον wrack Axios Delta, Greece
Theo Mamais 1 July 1999 48 weeks ago 3.3 -
A bird standing on wrack Axios Delta, Greece
Theo Mamais 1 July 2007 49 weeks ago 3.3 -
A bird wading in the water Tamil Nadu, India
vasanthan.p.j 19 January 2010 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3 -
dorsal view Awasa Lake, Ethiopia
Stefan Helming 3 November 2009 13 weeks ago 3 -
adult at rest on a rock Salses-le-Château, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Georges Olioso 30 April 2009 40 weeks ago 3
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Calls of bird taking off Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 November 1983 4 weeks ago 4 -
An adult giving alarm-calls. Vasterbotten County, Sweden
Iva Hristova 4 July 2008 9 weeks ago 0
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