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Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

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The Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata is a small wader. It breeds in the boggy tundra of northeast Asia and is strongly migratory, wintering in south east Asia and Australasia.

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

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The Spoon-billed Sandpiper (or Spoonbill Sandpiper), Eurynorhynchus pygmeus, is a small wader which breeds in northeastern Russia and winters in Southeast Asia.

Stilt Sandpiper

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The Stilt Sandpiper, Calidris himantopus or Micropalama himantopus, is a small shorebird. The Stilt Sandpiper breeds in the open arctic tundra of North America. It is a long-distance migrant, ...

Dunlin

Animals; Birds

The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions.

The Rock Sandpiper (Calidris or Erolia ptilocnemis) is a small shorebird. Their breeding habitat is the northern tundra on Arctic Pacific coast of Alaska and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands. The ...

Purple Sandpiper

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The Purple Sandpiper, Calidris, Arquatella or Erolia maritima is a small shorebird. Their breeding habitat is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and ...

Curlew Sandpiper

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The Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and ...