Sandpipers, Snipes

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Calidris pusilla

The Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a 28 g grassland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It migrates.

Family

Sandpipers, Snipes

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

28 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

52

Recorded in United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, BM, GP, Colombia, Panama, Chile, Barbados, BQ, Ecuador, Portugal, Honduras, Curaçao, Cuba, AW, Dominican Rep., Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, GF, VI, Bahamas, El Salvador, Suriname, Belize, United Kingdom, Nicaragua, AI, Grenada, KY, MF, Netherlands, Guyana, Antigua and Barb., MQ, TC, St. Pierre and Miquelon, MS, Jamaica, KN, Norway, St. Vin. and Gren., Spain, Ireland, Saint Lucia, VG, France.

Where to see it: West End Pond (Anguilla); Congo Road Private Impoundment (Barbados); Congo Road private impoundment (Barbados); Pointe des Roches / Plages des Roches (French Guiana); Anguilla · Cove Pond (Cap Jaluca) (Anguilla).

Photo: (c) Helio Lourencini, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist