Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis) - HBW 3, p. 525
French: Bécasseau des Aléoutiennes
German: Beringstrandläufer
Spanish: Correlimos Roquero
Other common names: Aleutian/Pribilof Sandpiper
Taxonomy: Tringa ptilocnemis Coues, 1873, St George Island, Pribilof Islands.
Formerly placed in genus Erolia. Forms superspecies with C. maritima, with which sometimes considered conspecific. Birds from Kuril Is have on occasion been awarded separate race kurilensis. Four subspecies normally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- quarta (Hartert, 1920) - Kuril Is, S Kamchatka and Commander Is.
- tschuktschorum Portenko, 1937 - E Chukotskiy Peninsula, St Lawrence I, Nunivak I and W Alaska; winters in NW North America and locally in E Japan.
- ptilocnemis (Coues, 1873) - St Matthew and Hall Is and Pribilof Is; winters on Alaska Peninsula.
- couesi (Ridgway, 1880) - Aleutian Is and Alaska Peninsula.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird foraging Locality Unimak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp tschuktschorum)
Helmut Schenkel Brunner 31 May 1998 3 years ago 31 sec 3.8 -
Adult in summer plumage feeding on the shoreline Locality Bering Island, Commander Islands, Kamchatka Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (ssp quarta)
Greg Baker 7 June 2009 2 years ago 1 min 14 sec 3.7 -
Three birds on a rock in the sea. Flying away, disturbed by passing car. Locality Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp couesi)
Marc de Bont 26 July 2008 45 weeks ago 37 sec 3.4 -
Single bird fouraging and being disturbed by passing car. Locality Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp couesi)
Marc de Bont 26 July 2008 45 weeks ago 30 sec 3.2 -
Adult running alarmed near nestingsite Locality Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp couesi)
Marc de Bont 28 July 2008 45 weeks ago 35 sec 3 -
Four birds foraging at rocky coastline next to the ferry road Locality False Pass, Unimak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA (United States) (ssp couesi)
Marc de Bont 25 July 2008 45 weeks ago 20 sec 2.5
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A bird standing on rocks.
Locality Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA (United States)
Ken Havard 23 May 2004 1 year ago 3.3 -
Two birds feeding in a rocky meadow
Locality Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA (United States)
Robert Wynands 6 October 1997 2 years ago 3 -
A bird walking through a meadow
Locality Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA (United States)
Robert Wynands 6 August 1997 2 years ago 2 -
A bird walking in a rocky meadow
Locality Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA (United States)
Robert Wynands 6 August 1997 2 years ago 2 -
Two birds feeding in a rocky meadow, one of them pecking under a rock
Locality Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA (United States)
Robert Wynands 6 August 1997 2 years ago 1.5
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