#0878 · 🐦 birds

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

🇳🇱 Blonde Ruiter ·Calidris subruficollis

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © zachsw · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jing-Yi Lu · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Cameron Eckert · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Colchester:© Jacob Crawford · CC BY 4.0
5. Nantucket, MA, USA:© Skyler Kardell · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Division No. 5, AB, Canada:© David Scott · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Baiona, Pontevedra, España:© franciscodocampo · CC BY 4.0
8. La Paz, BCS, MX:© Bill Levine · CC BY 4.0
9. Montrose Point, Chicago, IL, USA:© Jing-Yi Lu · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rocha, UY:© Diego Caballero · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The buff-breasted sandpiper ( Calidris subruficollis ) is a small shorebird. The species name subruficollis is from Latin sub , "near to" and collum , "neck". It is a calidrid sandpiper.

base stats

NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,138iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

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).