Semipalmated Sandpiper Images

Semipalmated Sandpiper Images, Facts and Information:

Calidris pusilla

• Semipalmated Sandpipers are small shorebirds with short necks, long bills, long black legs, gray brown backs and light colored chests.
• Semipalmated Sandpipers are migratory. They breed in open tundra near water in the Arctic from Labrador to Alaska. They winter from extreme southern U.S., the Caribbean and South America.
• They prefer habitats that include shorelines, mudflats and sandy beaches.
• Semipalmated Sandpipers eat insects and crustaceans.
• Semipalmated Sandpipers lay 2 to 4 eggs which hatch in 18 to 22 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.
• Semipalmated Sandpipers can live up to 12 years.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Semipalmated Sandpiper photos.