Curlew sandpiper

Curlew sandpiper
Non-breeding plumage
Breeding plumage
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Calidris
Species:
C. ferruginea
Binomial name
Calidris ferruginea
(Pontoppidan, 1763)
Synonyms

Erolia ferruginea Vieillot, 1816

The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia.

It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand.[2] It is a vagrant to North America.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2024). "Calidris ferruginea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024: e.T22693431A180593985. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22693431A180593985.en. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  2. ^ Thomas Alerstam (1993). Bird Migration. Cambridge University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780521448222.