Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds

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Scientific:
Calidris bairdii

Danish : Bairdsryle

Greenlandic : Nuvuksruk

Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Scolopacidae
Genus:
Calidris

Length: 5.9-7.1 in (15-18 cm)

Weight: 1.4-2.1 oz (40-60 g)

Wingspan: 15.8-17.3 in (40-44 cm)

Fun Fact: The female Baird’s Sandpiper lays a clutch of eggs that is up to 120% of her body mass in four days, shortly after arriving in the Arctic, with essentially no stored fat.

Nick Komar, XC332714. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/332714.

References:

Avibase The World Bird Network (2018) Calidris bairdii. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=1F1AD154DAE2E070

Moskoff, William and Robert Montgomerie. 2002. Baird’s Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Sibley, David Allen. 2014. The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A Knopf, New York.

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