Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
A species of Calidris Scientific name : Calidris acuminata Genus : Calidris
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, A species of Calidris
Botanical name: Calidris acuminata
Genus: Calidris
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Description
Measurements: Size: 22 cm Weight: 39-114 g Wingspan: 36–43 cm Breeding adults are a rich brown with darker feather centres above, and white underneath apart from a buff breast. They have a light superciliary line above the eye and a chestnut crown. In winter, sharp-tailed sandpipers are grey above. The juveniles are brightly patterned above with rufous colouration and white mantle stripes. This bird looks a lot like the pectoral sandpiper, within whose Asian range it breeds. It differs from that species in its breast pattern, stronger supercilium and more rufous crown. It has some similarities to the long-toed stint, but is much larger than the stint. 
Size
20 - 23 cm
Colors
Brown
Gray
White
Life Expectancy
6 years
Feeding Habits
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper primarily consume insects and invertebrates, foraging in grasslands and mudflats using sight and probing methods.
Habitat
The sharp-tailed Sandpiper is typically found in the tundra habitats of low Arctic and subarctic regions, favoring damp hillock tundra and moss-sedge bogs with occasional shrub-covered hummocks. During its non-breeding season, sharp-tailed Sandpiper occupies a diverse array of wetlands, including coastal salt marshes, intertidal mudflats, shallow brackish lagoons, flooded grasslands, river mouths, and rice fields across southeast Asia and Australasia.
Dite type
Aquatic invertebrate eater
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Distribution Area
It breeds in the boggy tundra of northeast Asia and is strongly migratory, wintering in south east Asia and Australasia. It occurs as a rare autumn migrant to North America, but in western Europe only as a very rare vagrant. There is a single documented record from South America.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Shorebirds Family
Sandpipers Genus
Calidris Species
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 
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