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Pectoral Sandpiper

Calidris melanotos ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Pectoral Sandpiper Photo

© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A medium-sized, chunky shorebird, the Pectoral Sandpiper is found most commonly on mudflats with short grass or weedy vegetation and seems more at home in the grass than in the water.

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Calls

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    Recorded by Charles A. Sutherland, Randolph Scott Little, William W. H. Gunn, J. P. Myers, Theodore A. Parker III
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a harsh "churk." Courtship call a hollow hooting, interspersed with growling and squawking notes.

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