Curlew sandpiper - Wikipedia
The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand. [2] It is a vagrant to North America.
Curlew Sandpiper - All About Birds
Curlew Sandpiper by Joey Hausler / Macaulay Library. Curlew Sandpipers are elegant shorebirds with a gracefully curved bill, long legs, and slim shape. Breeding adults are rich brick-red or deep chestnut, while nonbreeding birds stick to basic gray and white. Adults spend just a few short weeks at remote Siberian nesting sites before returning ...
Curlew Sandpiper | Audubon Field Guide
A few Curlew Sandpipers turn up on the Atlantic Coast every year, rewarding birders who scan through the shorebird flocks. Elsewhere in North America, this Eurasian wader is only a rare visitor. It has nested at Point Barrow, Alaska, but in most years it is completely absent there.
Curlew Sandpiper - eBird
Provisional. Medium-sized wader with a long, slightly downcurved bill. Slightly larger than Dunlin, with longer and finer bill, longer legs. In flight note large white rump patch. Breeding plumage deep rusty on head and body (like Red Knot).
Curlew Sandpiper Range Map - All About Birds
Curlew Sandpipers are elegant shorebirds with a gracefully curved bill, long legs, and slim shape. Breeding adults are rich brick-red or deep chestnut, while nonbreeding birds stick to basic gray and white.
Curlew sandpiper - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on ... - Animalia
The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand. It is a vagrant to North America.
Curlew Sandpiper | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology
Lifecycle and body size information about Curlew Sandpiper, including statistics on nesting, eggs and lifespan based on BTO ringing and nest recording data.
Long-billed Curlew | Audubon Field Guide - National Audubon …
This incredibly long-billed sandpiper is the largest of our shorebirds; but more often than not, it is seen away from the shore. It spends the summer on the grasslands of the arid west, appearing on coastal mudflats only in migration and winter, and even then likely to be on prairies instead.
Curlew Sandpiper Facts | Calidris Ferruginea - The RSPB Wildlife …
Length 18-23cm. Habitats Marine and Intertidal, Wetland, Grassland. UK breeding birds 740 individuals. Weight 45-90g. Wingspan 38-41cm. Similar to a dunlin but in autumn looks cleaner & paler with a white eyestripe. It has a longer, more down …
Focus On: Curlew Sandpipers - BirdGuides
Jul 16, 2004 · A stunning summer-plumaged Curlew Sandpiper can be a captivating sight for anyone during an early autumn outing to our coastal saltmarshes and lagoons.
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