Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds

https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/learn/identification/sandpipers-phalaropes-allies/sanderling

Scientific:
Calidris alba
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Scolopacidae
Genus:
Calidris

Danish: Sandløber

Greenlandic: Siorarsiooq

Length: 7.1-7.9 in (18-20 cm)

Weight: 1.4-3.5 oz (40-100 g)

Wingspan: 13.8 in (35 cm)

Paul Driver, XC70466. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/70466.

References:

Avibase The World Bird Databse (2018). Calidris alba. Downloaded from https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=06B9BD243A756B28 on 17/04/2018.

BirdLife International (2018) Species factsheet: Calidris alba. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 17/04/2018.

Macwhirter, R. Bruce, Peter Austin-Smith Jr. and Donald E. Kroodsma. 2002. Sanderling (Calidris alba), 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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