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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.
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 ...
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 sandpiper: Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819) 96 Western ...
Stilt sandpiper Calidris himantopus (A) Sanderling Calidris alba; Baird's sandpiper Calidris bairdii (A) Least sandpiper Calidris minutilla; White-rumped sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (A) Buff-breasted sandpiper, Calidris subruficollis; Pectoral sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A) Semipalmated sandpiper Calidris pusilla (A) Western sandpiper ...
Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes.Most of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.
The boreal forest or taiga of the North American continent stretches through a majority of Canada and most of central Alaska, extending spottily into the beginning of the Rocky Mountain range in Northern Montana and into New England and the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Purple sandpiper, Calidris maritima; Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii (Hist) Least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla; White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis (Unc) Pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos (R) Semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla; Western sandpiper, Calidris mauri (NC) Short-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus
Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii (O) Least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla; White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis; Buff-breasted sandpiper, Calidris subruficollis (O) Pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos (R) Semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla; Western sandpiper, Calidris mauri (R) Short-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus