Semipalmated Sandpiper

species of bird

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Species

PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderCharadriiformes
FamilyScolopacidae

Habitatmarine

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Calidris
Image: Semipalmated sandpiper at JBWR (30545).jpg

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The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific pusilla is Latin for "very small".

Within the genus Calidris, the semipalmated sandpiper is most closely related to the western sandpiper (Calidris mauri). It was formerly sometimes separated with some other stints in either Ereunetes or Erolia, but these placements would leave the rest of Calidris a paraphyletic group.