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White-rumped Sandpiper

Calidris fuscicollis(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)

English (US) White-rumped Sandpiper

The White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) 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 wet tundra from North Slope of Alaska eastward in coastal northern Canada to northwestern Hudson Bay, and Banks to Devon and Baffin islands (northeastern Canada); winters to wetlands of southern Chile, southeastern Brazil, northwestern to southeastern Argentina, and Falkland IslandsRange summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Calidris fuscicollis
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
English (US)
White-rumped Sandpiper
Described by
(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Tringa fuscicollis
Described by
(Vieillot, LJP, 1819)
Type locality
Paraguay, ex Azara, no. 404.
Original description
Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 34 p.461

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 98 species of the family Scolopacidae