Pectoral Sandpiper / Calidris melanotos LC

• Synonyms American Pectoral Sandpiper, Grass Snipe
• Old latin name for bird Actodromas maculata, Pisobia melanotos, Tringa maculata, Calidris melanotus, Ereunetes melanotos, Tringa melanotos, Calidris maculata, Erolia melanotos, Pisobia maculata

Pectoral Sandpiperbird sounds *

Related species

Sanderling

Curlew Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Great Knot

Dunlin

Red Knot

Where to see Pectoral Sandpiper

• Breeding region Eurasia, North America
• Breeding subregion high to low Arctic wet tundra of Holarctic: Yamal Pen. (nw Siberia) e to Chukotskiy Pen., s to Anadyr, including New Siberian and Wrangel is. (ne Russia); w, n Alaska through ne Canada, including Arctic islands from Banks to Devon and Southampton (ne Canada)
• Non breeding region AU, Southern Cone : mainly wet grassland, wetland edge of subtropical and temperate zone; few to se Australia, New Zealand, Chatham Is. (e of North I., New Zealand); most to Peru, Bolivia, and s Brazil s to Tierra del Fuego; a few winter farther north; prone to extreme vagrancy

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