Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Calidris subruficollis
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The buff-breasted sandpiper is a small shorebird. The species name subruficollis is from Latin subrufus, "reddish" and collis, "-necked/-throated". It is a calidrid sandpiper, notable for its long annual migration, from the arctic region of North America to the pampas region of South America.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris