Baird's Sandpiper
Calidris bairdii
Call and song
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About the Baird's Sandpiper
Long-winged, long-distance migrant similar to White-rumped Sandpiper but with warmer buffy-tan plumage. Elongated body gives a horizontal impression when foraging; unique flattened oval shape when seen head-on. Black bill and brown rump. Breeding adults rather pale with large black spots on back. Crisp juveniles show neat scaly pattern on wings and back and have a warm buffy face and neck. Often with flocks of other small shorebirds, but prefers drier habitats, such as the grassy edge of a mudflat, seaweed-covered upper portion of a beach, or sod field. Breeds in the Arctic tundra; winters in South America.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 68 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Antarctica
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Oman
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Senegal
- South Africa
- South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
