Sandpipers, Snipes

Purple Sandpiper

Calidris maritima

The Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a 65 g grassland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It migrates.

Family

Sandpipers, Snipes

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

65 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

24

Photo: (c) Shirley Zundell, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist