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    (c) Sergey Pisarevskiy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Imran Shah, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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    (c) vyatka, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Vijay Anand Ismavel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Ian White, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Frans Vandewalle, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos

Worldwide
67,900 observations
Group
Birds
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About

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 basal species of the closely related shank genus Tringa.

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