Purple Sandpiper

Calidris maritima

Order

CHARADRIIFORMES

Family

Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

Code 4

PUSA

Code 6

CALMAR

ITIS

Purple Sandpiper (Winter) - The winter adult Purple Sandpiper is duller, grayer, and lacks the brown cap and breast.

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Bird Call Credits: The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Martyn Stewart, http://www.naturesound.org, Redmond, Washington USA. The reuse or copying of bird calls in this database is strictly forbidden2.