Bird Sightings: Baird's Sandpiper

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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Baird's Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Calidris bairdii

Photograph © Andy Robinson
Borve - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
September 2005

Only 4 UK records annually

Breeds: Northern tundra - East Siberia to West Greenland

Winters: South America

Habitat Coastal & Alpine tundra (migration mudflats, grazing land)

Diet mostly insects, small crustaceans

BTO site says a Baird's Sandpiper lays a clutch of eggs that is up to 120% of her body mass in four days...

May be hybriding with white-rumped sandpiper

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