Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Spotted Sandpiper
The Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds inland waterbody margins from Aleutian Islands and Alaska mainland except North Slope eastward through Canada (except far northern) to Newfoundland, and southward to southwestern and east-central USA; winters southern USA and Caribbean southward to northern Chile and ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Actitis macularius
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tringa macularia
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Europe and North America = Pennsylvania, ex reference to Edwards, pi. 277, f. 2.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.249
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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