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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

"A few more american waders around at the weeeknd - Buff-Breasted sandpiper at
the butt of lewis with an American Golden plover also there on Saturday. And a
Bairds sandpiper at Borve beach...

Just working on your pics and realised you got a Buff-breasted Sandpiper AND
American Golden Plover in the same shot!!
That was a very good day...

"Yep it was - I'd bumped into Tristan and we were approaching the pool near the
ligthhouse which I saying had the most potential when hey presto up they
popped!"

 

• Only 4 UK records annually
• WI: Rare visitor (five or less records) TBC
• 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

 

See the Surfbirds online guide to identification of long-winged peeps

 

 

Baird's Sandpiper records in the Western Isles

Rare visitor (five or less records) TBC

The chart below shows how abundant the bird is during a month or when you are more likely to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

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