Common Names
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Common Names in Afrikaans:
Geelpootstrandloper
Common Names in Dutch:
Gestreepte Strandloper
Common Names in English:
Grass Snipe, Pectoral Sandpiper
Common Names in French:
Bècasseau à Poitrine Cendrèe, Bécasseau à Poitrine Cendrée, Bécasseau Tacheté, Bécasseau à Poitrine Cendrée
Common Names in German:
Graubrust-Strandläufer, Graubruststrandläufer
Common Names in Hebrew:
חופית כהת-חזה
Common Names in Italian:
Piro Piro Pettorale, Piro-Piro Pettorale
Common Names in Japanese:
アメリカウズラシギ
Common Names in Russian:
Dutysh, Дутыш, Кулик-дутыш
Common Names in Spanish:
Correlimos Pectoral, Playero Pectoral
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Head : Crown: dark brown with black, chestnut, and pale olive-brown stripes Face : Eyebrow Line : white stripe over eye Bill: black with greenish-yellow base Shape : slender Body: Back: thin white stripes Breast: streaked brown Mantle: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes Underparts: whitish Legs : Leg Color: greenish yellow Wings: Tertials: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes.Adult Breeding Season : Head: Crown: dark brown with black, chestnut, and pale olive-brown stripes Face: Eyebrow Line: white stripe over eye Bill: black with greenish-yellow base Shape: slender Neck: Foreneck: buff streaked with black Throat : pale Body: Back: two brighter stripes down each side Belly: white Breast: buff streaked with black (male more mottled ) Mantle: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes Rump : sides white, center blackish Underparts: whitish Upperparts: brighter than winter adult, feathers with rusty edges Legs: Leg Color: greenish yellow Wings: Tertials: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes.Adult Female: Head: Size: small Body: Back: striped Belly: white Breast: patterned Shape: stout Size: much smaller than male Legs: Leg Color: yellowish.Adult Male: Head: Size: small Body: Back: striped Belly: white Breast: patterned Shape: stout Size: much larger than female Legs: Leg Color: yellowish.Adult Winter: Head: Crown: dark brown with black, chestnut, and pale olive-brown stripes Face: Eyebrow Line: white stripe over eye Bill: black with greenish-yellow base Shape: slender Neck: Foreneck: dull buff, streaked with dusky Throat: pale Body: Back: two pale stripes down each side Belly: white Breast: dull buff, streaked with dusky Mantle: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes Rump: sides white, center blackish Underparts: whitish Upperparts: feathers dark brown, edged with gray brown Legs: Leg Color: greenish yellow Wings: Tertials: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes.Immature: Head: Crown: feathers edged with rufous Face: Eyebrow Line: white stripe over eye Bill: black with greenish-yellow base Shape: slender Neck: Foreneck: dull buff, streaked with dusky Throat: pale Body: Back: two pale stripes down each side Belly: white Breast: dull buff, more lightly streaked than winter adult Mantle: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes Rump: sides white, center blackish Underparts: whitish Upperparts: sometimes bright, buff-edged feathers Legs: Leg Color: greenish yellow Wings: Tertials: feathers have blackish brown centers with chestnut to buff fringes.
Size/Age/Growth
About 8 to 9 inches long, with a wingspan of 15 to 16 inches. Adults weigh about 3.5 ounces .
Habitat
Vegetation: freshwater marshes, saltwater and brackish marshes, arid lowland scrubs, pastures and agricultural lands • Maximum Elevation: 4,000 meters • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,939 meters (0 to 12,923 feet).Mean = 207.510 meters (680.807 feet), Standard Deviation = 313.050 based on 12,921 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Biology
Diet
Primarily aquatic invertebrates , with lesser quantities of plant matter.
Reproduction
- Clutch Size: 4
- Length of Incubation : 21-23 days
- Days to Fledge : 21
- Number of Broods: 1
Migration
Migratory
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Birds
- Subclass:
Neornithes
()
- Gadow, 1893
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
()
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
()
- Bonaparte, 1854
- Albatrosses, Alcids
- Suborder:
Charadrii
()
- Huxley, 1867
- Infraorder:
Charadriides
()
-
- Parvorder:
Scolopacida
()
- Superfamily:
Scolopacoidea
()
-
- Family:
Scolopacidae
()
- Vigors, 1825
- Family:
Scolopacidae
(
- Superfamily:
Scolopacoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Scolopacida
(
- Infraorder:
Charadriides
(
- Suborder:
Charadrii
(
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
(
- Subclass:
Neornithes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Calidris melanotos (Vieillot) 1819
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper, Ruff
Members of the genus Calidris
There are approximately 60 species in this genus:
C. acuminata (Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper) · C. alba (Sanderling) · C. alba alba · C. alba rubida · C. albus · C. alpina (Dunlin) · C. alpina actites · C. alpina alpina (Dunlin) · C. alpina arctica (Dunlin) · C. alpina arcticola · C. alpina centralis · C. alpina hudsonia · C. alpina kistchinski · C. alpina pacifica (Dunlin) · C. alpina sakhalina · C. alpina schinzii (Dunlin) · C. alpina ssp · C. arenaria · C. bairdi · C. bairdii (Baird's Sandpiper) · C. canutus (Red Knot) · C. canutus canutus (Red Knot) · C. canutus islandica · C. canutus piersmai · C. canutus rogersi · C. canutus roselaari · C. canutus rufa (Red Knot) · C. canutus rufus · C. cooperi · C. ferruginea (Curlew Sandpiper) · C. ferrugineus · C. feruginea (Curlew Sandpiper) · C. fuscicollis (White-Rumped Sandpiper) · C. himantopus (Stilt Sandpiper) · C. maritima (Purple Sandpiper) · C. maritima littoralis · C. maritima maritima · C. mauri (Western Sandpiper) · C. melanotos (Pectoral Sandpiper) · C. minuta (Little Stint) · C. minutilla (Least Sandpiper) · C. minutus · C. ptilocnemis (Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis couesi (Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis ptilocnemis (Pribilof Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis quarta (Rock Sandpiper) · C. ptilocnemis tschuktschorum (Rock Sandpiper) · C. pusilla (Semipalmated Sandpiper) · C. pusillus · C. ruficoilis · C. ruficolis · C. ruficollis (Red-Necked Stint) · C. subminuta (Long-Toed Stint) · C. temminchii · C. temmincki · C. temminckii (Temminck's Stint) · C. temminkii · C. tenuinostris · C. tenuirostris (Great Knot) · C. testacea
Bibliography
- Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
- Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)
More Info
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Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 10, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:
- Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Royal British Columbia Museum
- Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- New Brunswick Museum, NBM birds
- OZCAM
- Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- , Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851108
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176653
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13852430
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176653
- IUCN ID: 49084
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNNF11130
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7538
