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Sanderling

Calidris alba ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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The Sanderling is most commonly seen in flocks chasing receding waves on ocean beaches, and running away from them when they return. It breeds in the high Arctic and winters along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts from Canada to Argentina.

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Calls

  • Calls
  • Pair calls
  • Female laugh and call. Male call in background.
  • Agonisitc pursuit calls
  • Calls during copualtion
  • Female piping call followed by male
  • Male call with female in backround prior to incubation. Male chatter.
  • Precopulatory call
  • Calls around nest
  • Calls of male around prospective mate
  • Calls of male around prospective mate
  • Calls by male
  • Calls on ground, beginning of flight display
  • Antagonistic pursuit calls in flight
  • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a soft "wick wick." Twittering in flocks. On breeding grounds male gives frog-like calls in flight.

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