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Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Playero Canelo
Calidris subruficollis
The buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis) is a small shorebird. The species name subruficollis is from Latin subrufus, "reddish" (from sub, "somewhat", and rufus, "rufous") and collis, "-necked/-throated" (from collum, "neck"). It is a calidrid sandpiper.
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Sound recorded by Paul Kelly · XC747616 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Visualization by Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden.
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About the Buff-breasted Sandpiper
The buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis) is a small shorebird. The species name subruficollis is from Latin subrufus, "reddish" (from sub, "somewhat", and rufus, "rufous") and collis, "-necked/-throated" (from collum, "neck"). It is a calidrid sandpiper.
Conservation
Vulnerable
IUCN VU
- Global IUCN
- VU
- Puerto Rico DNER
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Federal ESA
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Critical habitat
- Not identified in source crosswalk
Natural history
How it lives
- Habitat
- grasslands
- Elevation
- 0–1000 m
- Nest
- Not resolved
- Clutch
- 3–4 eggs
- Social behavior
- Social / flocking; Pairs / family groups; Solitary; Lekking
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