Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The spotted sandpiper is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species the common sandpiper, it makes up the genus Actitis. They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Actitis