Purple Sandpiper / Calidris maritima LC

• Old latin name for bird Ereunetes maritimus, Erolia maritima, Charadrius maritima, Tringa maritima, Arquatella maritima

Purple Sandpiperbird sounds *

Related species

Sanderling

Curlew Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Great Knot

Dunlin

Red Knot

Where to see Purple Sandpiper

• Breeding region Eurasia, North America
• Breeding subregion high to low montane Arctic of North Atlantic and Arctic oceans: Greenland (except n, ne), Iceland, Jan Mayen (ne of Iceland), Bear I. and Svalbard (n of Norway), Scandinavia to far nw Russia, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya (n of nw Siberia) and Severnaya Zemlya and Taymyr Pen. (nc Siberia); Banks to s Ellesmere and Baffin is. (nc Canada)
• Non breeding region e NA, w Europe : rocky North Atlantic coasts: Iceland, Faroe Is., British Isles, Scandinavia and w Europe (e North Atlantic); Labrador and Gulf of St. Lawrence (se Canada) to North Carolina (w North Atlantic)

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