#0922 · 🐦 birds

Baird's Sandpiper

🇳🇱 Bairds Strandloper ·Calidris bairdii

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Jamie Chavez · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Matt Schenck · CC BY 4.0
4. © Mark Dennis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Finistère, Bretagne, FR:© Victor HOYEAU · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Old Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada:© Kent Ross · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Ram Ridge trail:© Monica Dahl · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina:© Fermin Segalerba · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Calkiní, Camp., México:© Ramón Trinchan · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. GG74+95C Parque Nacional Chirripó, San José, Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Baird's sandpiper ( Calidris bairdii ) is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids which were formerly included in the genus Erolia , which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris , a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The English name and specific bairdii commemorate Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19th-century naturalist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,248iNaturalist observations
weight 9.6 gadult, up to
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).