Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 42,571
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia), make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a member of the closely related genus Tringa.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Common sandpiper”.