Purple Sandpiper
Calidris maritima
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 5,064
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. This is a hardy sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America and winters further south on the Atlantic coast.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Purple sandpiper”.