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Sanderling

Calidris alba ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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
    Recorded by Darryl Dahmer; Stuart D. MacDonald; Charles A. Sutherland
    • 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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