Least Sandpiper Images, Facts and Information:
Calidris minutilla
- Least Sandpipers are tiny shorebirds with rounded bodies, brown upperparts, white underparts, thin black bills and yellowish medium-length legs.
- Least Sandpipers are the smallest shorebird in the world and are included in a group called “peeps” that include tiny shorebirds.
- Least Sandpipers are migratory. Their preferred habitat includes mudflats and the edges of bodies of water including estuaries, beaches and lagoons. They breed in wet tundra, coastal wetlands, bogs, sedge meadows, and heaths in North America.
- Least Sandpipers eat insects and invertebrates including horseshoe crab eggs, midges, flies, beetles and dragonflies.
- Least Sandpipers lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 19 to 23 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of sandpipers can be called a “fling”, “hill”, “bind”, “contradiction” or a “time-step” of sandpipers.
- Least Sandpipers can live up to 16 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Least Sandpiper photos.
Least Sandpiper in the Kamas Valley of Utah
Title: Least Sandpiper in the Kamas Valley of Utah
Location: Kamas Valley, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/17/2023
Least Sandpiper foraging in an alkali pond
Title: Least Sandpiper foraging in an alkali pond
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/14/2016
Least Sandpiper with a mud-covered foot
Title: Least Sandpiper with a mud-covered foot
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/14/2016
Least Sandpiper in Beaverhead County
Title: Least Sandpiper in Beaverhead County
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/14/2016
Least Sandpiper in a pond
Title: Least Sandpiper in a pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
A migrating Least Sandpiper
Title: A migrating Least Sandpiper
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
Least Sandpiper next to grasses
Title: Least Sandpiper next to grasses
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
A Least Sandpiper standing on mud
Title: A Least Sandpiper standing on mud
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
Least Sandpiper with Duckweed
Title: Least Sandpiper with Duckweed
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
A stretching Least Sandpiper
Title: A stretching Least Sandpiper
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
Least Sandpiper at Farmington Bay
Title: Least Sandpiper at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2015
Least Sandpiper in seaweed
Title: Least Sandpiper in seaweed
Location: Honeymoon Island State Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/8/2009
Least Sandpiper in early morning light
Title: Least Sandpiper in early morning light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 1/27/2009
Least Sandpiper on the sand next to a lagoon
Title: Least Sandpiper on the sand next to a lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/12/2008
Least Sandpiper at the lagoon’s edge
Title: Least Sandpiper at the lagoon’s edge
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/12/2008
Least Sandpiper – small in frame
Title: Least Sandpiper – small in frame
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/13/2008
Least Sandpiper at the edge of the lagoon
Title: Least Sandpiper at the edge of the lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
Least Sandpiper bathing in a lagoon
Title: Least Sandpiper bathing in a lagoon
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008
A Least Sandpiper looking at the sky
Title: A Least Sandpiper looking at the sky
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/4/2008