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Species
Least ConcernRock Sandpiper
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyScolopacidae
Habitatmarine
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Calidris
- Mass
- 79
- Image
- Rock Sandpiper - Pribilof - Alaska 0036 (1) (15843212885).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Calidris ptilocnemis
- Commons category
- Calidris ptilocnemis
- Commons gallery
- Calidris ptilocnemis
- taxon common name
- pilrito-das-rochas
- wingspan
- 40
- litter size
- 4
- short name
- C. ptilocnemis
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Encyclopedic overview
The rock sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. This is a hardy sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and subarctic regions of Alaska and the Chukotka and Kamchatka Peninsulas. It is closely related to the purple sandpiper that breeds in arctic regions of northeast Canada and the northwest Palearctic, and in the past was often considered conspecific with it.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rock Sandpiper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.