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Semipalmated Sandpiper
Bill Keim, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Shorebirds, gulls & terns

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Calidris pusilla (Linnaeus, 1766)

NT Near ThreatenedOn Suriname's list of threatened fauna

Names

EnglishSemipalmated Sandpiper
DutchGrijze Strandloper
SpanishPlayero semipalmeado
Chinese半蹼滨鹬
Scientific nameCalidris pusilla (Linnaeus, 1766)

About this species

The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific pusilla is Latin for "very small".

Within the genus Calidris, the semipalmated sandpiper is most closely related to the western sandpiper (Calidris mauri). It was formerly sometimes separated with some other stints in either Ereunetes or Erolia, but these placements would leave the rest of Calidris a paraphyletic group.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderCharadriiformes
FamilyScolopacidae
GenusCalidris

In Suriname

1,085Records in Suriname
24iNaturalist observations
1913First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo348
  • Commewijne270
  • Nickerie127
  • Coronie45
  • Saramacca14
  • Marowijne4
  • Sipaliwini4
  • Wanica2
  • Para2

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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