Baird's sandpiper / Bairdstrandläufer (Calidris bairdii)

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Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Calidris (Calidris); Family Shorebirds (Scolopacidae)
Geography: This bird appears across the great seas in the following continents: North America, South America, Africa.
General: Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids which were formerly included in the genus Erolia, which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973.^[2] The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The English name and specific bairdii commemorate Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19th-century naturalist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.^[3] [more]