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Overview
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper: Medium sandpiper with dark brown upperparts and white underparts with faint olive-brown streaks on breast and sides. Head has rufous crown, white eye ring and eyestripe. Wings are dark brown. Tail is dark brown and pointed in flight. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.
Range and Habitat
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper: Eurasian species; casual spring and common fall migrant in western Alaska; rare fall migrant along entire Pacific coast. Preferred habitats include tidal sandbars, mudflats, estuaries, swamps, inland lakes, and shorelines.
Topo Map:
Sandpiper-like Body
Voice Text
"pleep-pleep-trrt"
Interesting Facts
A group of sandpipers has many collective nouns, including a "bind", "contradiction", "fling", "hill", and "time-step" of sandpipers.
Bird Term Glossary
Author
Gary Owen Dick
Related Birds
Ruffed Grouse
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ruff
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