Curlew sandpiper
| Curlew sandpiper | |
|---|---|
| Non-breeding plumage | |
| Breeding plumage | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Calidris |
| Species: | C. ferruginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Erolia ferruginea Vieillot, 1816 | |
The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia.
It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand. It is a vagrant to North America.
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