Purple Sandpiper
Calidris maritima(BrĂ¼nnich, MT, 1764)
English (US) Purple Sandpiper
The Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) 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 montane tundra from Greenland and Iceland eastward through Arctic Europe and Russia to Taymyr Peninsula (north-central Siberia), also Banks to southern Ellesmere and Baffin islands (north-central Canada); winters rocky North Atlantic coasts from Iceland and Faroe Islands to western Europe, and Labrador and Gulf of St. Lawrence (southeastern Canada) southward to North CarolinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calidris maritima
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple Sandpiper
- Described by
- (BrĂ¼nnich, MT, 1764)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tringa maritima
- Described by
- (BrĂ¼nnich, MT, 1764)
- Type locality
- Christianso and Norway.
- Original description
- Ornithologia borealis, sistens collectionem avium ex omnibus, Imperio Danico subjectis (etc.) p.54
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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