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  2. White-rumped sandpiper - Wikipedia

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    The white-rumped sandpiper is a relatively small bird measuring only 7.8 in (20 cm). [2] The top of its body is a dull grey-brown color and it has a white eye stripe. Its beak is of medium length, thin and dark, and its legs are very dark.

  3. Dunlin - Wikipedia

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    The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is ... Apparent hybrids between this species and the white-rumped sandpiper as well as with the purple sandpiper have been reported from ...

  4. List of sandpipers - Wikipedia

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    Dunlin: Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758) 89 Purple sandpiper: Calidris maritima (Brünnich, 1764) 90 Rock sandpiper: Calidris ptilocnemis (Coues, 1873) 91 Baird's sandpiper: Calidris bairdii (Coues, 1861) 92 Little stint: Calidris minuta (Leisler, 1812) 93 Least sandpiper: Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819) 94 White-rumped sandpiper: Calidris ...

  5. Sandpiper - Wikipedia

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    Sandpiper nest with four eggs. ... Dunlin, Calidris alpina; Rock sandpiper, ... White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis;

  6. Hybridisation in shorebirds - Wikipedia

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    Putative hybrids between the dunlin (Calidris alpina) and the white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) have been occasionally seen in northeastern North America. [9] [10] In Europe an apparent hybrid between the dunlin and the purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) has turned up. [11]

  7. Broad-billed sandpiper - Wikipedia

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    Broad billed sandpiper. Broad-billed sandpipers are small waders, slightly smaller than the dunlin, but with a longer straighter bill, and shorter legs. The breeding adult has patterned dark grey upperparts and white underparts with blackish markings on the breast. It has a pale crown stripe and supercilia.

  8. Baird's sandpiper - Wikipedia

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    Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids which were formerly included in the genus Erolia , which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973. [ 2 ] The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris , a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.

  9. Calidris - Wikipedia

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    Calidris is a genus of Arctic-breeding, strongly migratory wading birds in the family Scolopacidae.These birds form huge mixed flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter. Migratory shorebirds are shown to have decline in reproductive traits because of temporal changes of their breeding seaso