Broad-billed sandpiper | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Scolopacidae |
Genus: | Calidris |
Species: | C. falcinellus
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Binomial name | |
Calidris falcinellus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
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Synonyms | |
Limicola falcinellus |
The broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) is a small wading bird. The scientific name is from Latin. The specific name falcinella is from falx, falcis, "a sickle.[2] Some research suggests that it should rather go into the genus Philomachus.[3]