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Calidris alba (Sanderling)


English: Sanderling  

Russian: Песчанка
Mongolian: Гурвалж элсэг
German: Sanderling
French: Becasseau sanderling
Japanese:  ミユビシギ (Miyubi-shigi)

Body length: 18-21 cm

Breeds in high Arctic; seen on passage and in winter in sometimes large flocks on sandy beaches, mudflats on pools near coast; rare inland. Feeds with distinctive dashing running action ahead of breaking waves, but also more methodically on calmer, shallow shorelines or grassy areas.

Identification: Dunlin-sized, but more compact. Could be confused with stints owing to lively action, especially lone bird away from typical shore habitat, but note larger size, stouter bill, much broader black-bordered white-wing-bar, and diagnostic lack of hind toe. In winter, appears strikingly pale among other shore waders and shows distinctive blackish-bend (when this is not covered by breast-side feathers). 

  • Adult summer: In spring, head and clear-cut dark-spotted breast-band grey/rufous, and upperparts blackish and rufous with broad pale fringes; in summer, head, breast and upperparts become strongly rufous.
  • Adult winter: Generally plain, very pale grey above with blackish lesser coverts; wing-coverts and tertials diffusely white-fringed.
  • Juvenile: General pattern like juvenile stint, but whole plumage more contrastingly black and white, mantle and scapulars more spangled or spotted with white (not neat scaly pattern) and lacks white mantle-and scapular-Vs.
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