Sandpipers, Snipes
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia), make up the genus Actitis.
- Family
- Sandpipers, Snipes
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 48 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 150
Photo: Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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