#0650 · 🐦 birds

Purple Sandpiper

🇳🇱 Paarse strandloper ·Calidris maritima

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Kent Ross · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kent Ross · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Maksymilian Wojtkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
6. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The purple sandpiper ( Calidris maritima ) is a small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris , a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific maritima is from Latin and means "of the sea", from mare , "sea".

base stats

NL sightings 297iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,416iNaturalist observations
weight 76.3 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).