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Upland Sandpiper

Bartramia longicauda ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: SCOLOPACIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Upland Sandpiper Photo

© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A shorebird of grasslands, not shores, the Upland Sandpiper inhabits native prairie and other open grassy areas in North America. Once abundant in the Great Plains, it has undergone steady population declines since the mid-19th century, because of hunting and loss of habitat.

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Calls

  • Calls, whistles
    Recorded by Lucie Gunn
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a long series of mellow notes, starting with a gurgling rising trill and ending with a long descending whistle; final whistle sounds to some like a "wolf-whistle." Flight call is a bubbling "quip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip-ip."

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