Sandpipers, Snipes
Sanderling
Calidris alba
The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English sand-yrðling, "sand-ploughman". The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.
- Family
- Sandpipers, Snipes
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 52 g
- Habitat
- Coastal
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 129
