Buff-breasted Sandpiper

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When to see the Buff-breasted Sandpiper

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-breasted Sandpiper

The map shades 59 countries with regular records, and 17 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Belgium, India, Netherlands, Finland, Taiwan, Guatemala, Czechia, Greece, Russia, Northern Mariana Islands, Morocco, Namibia, Seychelles, Dominican Republic, St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, Mongolia.

About the Buff-breasted Sandpiper

The buff-breasted sandpiper is a small shorebird. The species name subruficollis is from Latin subrufus, "reddish" and collis, "-necked/-throated". It is a calidrid sandpiper.

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Easily confused with

Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellusBroad-billed sandpipers are small waders, 16–18 cm long, slightly smaller than the dunlin, but larger than the little stint; it has a longer, straighter bill with the tip distinctly kinked down, and shorter legs than dunlin. SurfbirdCalidris virgataThe surfbird is a large sandpiper, reminiscent of the turnstones or the great knot. Great KnotCalidris tenuirostrisThe great knot is a medium-sized wader.

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