Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) - HBW 3, p. 524
French: Bécasseau à queue pointue
German: Spitzschwanz-Strandläufer
Spanish: Correlimos Acuminado
Other common names: Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper
Taxonomy: Totanus acuminatus Horsfield, 1821, Java.
Formerly placed in genus Erolia. Cooper’s Sandpiper “C. (Pisobia) cooperi” was probably hybrid between C. ferruginea and present species (see page 446). Monotypic.
Distribution: NC & NE Siberia from Lena Delta to R Kolyma. Winters from New Guinea through Melanesia to New Caledonia and Tonga, and S to Australia and New Zealand.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Several views of winter-plumaged birds foraging. Locality Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Geoffrey Dabb 30 September 2006 4 years ago 32 sec 4.7 -
Different close shots of birds feeding in the water, in winter plumage Locality Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Geoffrey Dabb 30 September 2006 4 years ago 45 sec 4.6 -
Three individuals in winter plumage preening, then a group feeding Locality Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Geoffrey Dabb 30 September 2006 4 years ago 47 sec 4.5 -
A juvenile on a beach, defecating and flying away Locality Santa Clara River Estuary, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 30 September 2005 4 years ago 9 sec 4.4 -
A bird in the water, feeding Locality Penrice Saltfields, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Philip Griffin 30 October 2005 5 years ago 29 sec 4.4 -
A bird walking through shallow water and feeding Locality Penrice Saltfields, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 11 April 2006 5 years ago 5 sec 4.3
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A rare Siberian visitor to Southern California, this one being a juvenile.
Locality Ventura, Ventura County, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Don DesJardin 4 November 1994 3 years ago 4.4 -
Sharp-tailed sandpiper - single bird on rock.
Locality Werribee, Victoria, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 2 December 2011 6 weeks ago 4.2 -
A first year bird, walking.
Locality Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 25 October 2007 34 weeks ago 3.8 -
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, adult in breeding plumage, lateral view.
Locality Beidaihe, Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 15 May 2010 1 year ago 3.6 -
A bird in non-breeding plumage.
Locality Werribee, Victoria, Australia (Monotypic species)
Ken Havard 28 October 2008 47 weeks ago 3.6 -
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ad., 2 nd report for Germany, 15.09.2011
Locality Reckahn Fish Ponds, Brandenburg, Germany
Norbert Uhlhaas 15 September 2011 19 weeks ago 3.4
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