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The purple sandpiper was formally described in 1764 by the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich and given the binomial name Tringa maratina. [2] This species was formerly placed in the genus Erolia, [3] [4] but is now placed with 23 other sandpipers in the genus Calidris that was introduced in 1804 by the German naturalist Blasius Merrem.
Same image but determined this bird is a Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) rather than a Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) originally thought. Meta data has been corrected. 19:36, 20 October 2019: 2,845 × 1,899 (2.84 MB) GRDN711: User created page with UploadWizard
They are small to medium-sized birds, measuring 12 to 66 cm (4.7–26.0 in) in length. The bills are sensitive, allowing the birds to feel the mud and sand as they probe for food. They generally have dull plumage , with cryptic brown, grey, or streaked patterns, although some display brighter colours during the breeding season.
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 fuscicollis (Vieillot, 1819) 95 Pectoral ...
Hudsonian godwit Purple sandpiper Greater yellowlegs. Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae. Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers, and phalaropes.
The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Massachusetts. This list of birds of Massachusetts includes species documented in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been introduced to North America, three ...
The white wing band is distinctive in flight, both above and below. The willet is an inelegant and heavily built shorebird with a structure similar to that of the common redshank but being larger in size than the greater yellowlegs while resembling a godwit in flight with black primary coverts and primaries contrasting with a broad white band, white secondaries with a white rump and gray tail ...
The source for birds in the U.S. territories is the Avibase website: Bird checklists of the world (American Samoa), [6] Bird checklists of the world (Guam), [3] Bird checklists of the world (Northern Mariana Islands), [5] Bird checklists of the world (Puerto Rico), [4] Bird checklists of the world (United States Virgin Islands), [9] and Bird ...