Sandpipers, Snipes

Upland Sandpiper

Bartramia longicauda

The Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) is a 159 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Sandpipers, Snipes

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

159 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

23

Recorded in United States, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, United Kingdom, Belize, Chile, Sweden, Panama, BM, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Honduras.

Where to see it: Bahia de Asuncion (Paraguay); Congo Road private impoundment (Barbados); Grand Bahama - West End (Bahamas); Barba Azul Nature Reserve (Bolivia); Playa - Ex Calera San Antonio (Paraguay).

Photo: (c) Syd Cannings, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist