#0623 · 🐦 birds

Common Sandpiper

🇳🇱 Oeverloper ·Actitis hypoleucos

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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1. © Sergey Pisarevskiy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Imran Shah · CC BY-SA 4.0
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4. © Vijay Anand Ismavel · CC BY-NC 4.0
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7. © Katia Setrinen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Dmitry P. · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © camila1975 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The common sandpiper ( Actitis hypoleucos ) is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper ( A. macularia ), make up the genus Actitis . They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a basal species of the closely related shank genus Tringa .

base stats

NL sightings 481iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 67,533iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).