Baird's Sandpiper

Calidris bairdiiOrder: CHARADRIIFORMES Family: Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

Codes: Common Name: BASA Scientific Name: CALBAI ITIS Taxonomic No.: 176655

Head

Topo Map: Sandpiper-like Head

Bill Shape: Dagger
Eye Color: Dark brown.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Plain, Streaked
Crown Color: Brown streaked.
Forehead Color: Brown and gray.
Nape Color: Brown and gray-brown streaked.
Throat Color: Brown with fine, darker streaks.
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Sandpiper-like Body

Length Range: 18-20 cm (7-8 in)
Weight: 40 g (1.4 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: White, Black, Gray, Buff
Underparts: Pale brown and brown finely streaked breast with white belly and sides.
Upperparts: Gray-brown, scaled appearance.
Back Pattern: Spotted or speckled
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked

Flight

Topo Map: Sandpiper-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.
Wingspan Range: 38-41 cm (15-16 in)
Wing Shape: Tapered-Wings
Tail Shape: Pointed Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid with edging
Upper Tail: Gray-brown with wide central black stripe.
Under Tail: White, gray and black.
Leg Color: Black

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Baird's Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper: Medium sandpiper with scaled, gray-brown upperparts, white underparts, and dark-spotted, gray-brown breast. Crown, face, and neck are buff with fine, dark brown streaks. Rump is white with dark central stripe extending through the center of gray-brown tail. Black legs and feet.

● Song: "kreeep"

● Foraging & Feeding: Baird's Sandpiper: Diet consists primarily of insects, spiders, and small crustaceans; forages by picking food items off relatively dry substrates such as baked mud, sand, or grass.

● Breeding & nesting: Baird's Sandpiper: Four dark brown-spotted, pink to olive eggs are laid in a small hollow on dry tundra. Both parents incubate eggs for 22 days. Young fly in 16 to 20 days.

● Similar species: Baird's Sandpiper: Least Sandpiper is smaller and has yellow-green legs. Semipalmated Sandpiper has grayer breast. White-rumped Sandpiper has white rump.

Flight Pattern

Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Baird's Sandpiper: Breeds in the Arctic from eastern Siberia and Alaska to northwestern Greenland. Spends winters in South America, migrating mostly through the interior of North America; uncommon on Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Preferred habitats include freshwater marshes, riverbanks, and lakesides; less frequent on coastal and brackish marshes and adjacent grasslands.

^BreedingMonogamous

^PopulationFairly common to uncommon

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight1.4 Ounces

Sandpiper-like Head

Sandpiper-like Body

Sandpiper-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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