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    (c) Titouan Roguet, all rights reserved

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    (c) Titouan Roguet, all rights reserved

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    (c) Don-Jean Leandri-Breton, all rights reserved

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    (c) Josh van der Meulen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Jamie Chavez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Dan LaVorgna, all rights reserved

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Baird's Sandpiper

Calidris bairdii

Worldwide
11,283 observations
Group
Birds
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids which were formerly included in the genus Erolia, which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The English name and specific bairdii commemorate Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19th-century naturalist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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