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Spotted Sandpiper
Playero Coleador
Actitis macularius
The spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius) is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species the common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos), it makes up the genus Actitis. They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize.
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Sound recorded by Rafael Gianni-Zurita · XC1007571 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Visualization by Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden.
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Island profile
About the Spotted Sandpiper
The spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius) is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species the common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos), it makes up the genus Actitis. They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize.
Conservation
Least Concern
IUCN LC
- Global IUCN
- LC
- 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
- wetlands
- Elevation
- 0–4700 m
- Nest
- Scrape · Ground
- Clutch
- 3–5 eggs
- Social behavior
- Singly and pairs
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