Upland Sandpiper Images

Upland Sandpiper Images, Facts and Information:

Bartramia longicauda

• Upland Sandpipers are large sandpipers with brown, dark spotted upperparts, black rumps, white chins, bellies, necks and throats that have dark chevrons on their breasts and sides. They have dark head caps, white eye rings, short thin bills and long legs and necks.
• Upland Sandpipers are migratory. They breed from Maine through Canada to Alaska, south to Oklahoma and east to New England. Their preferred habitat includes grassy areas, pastures and fallow fields.
• Upland Sandpipers eat insects, spiders, earthworms, snails, and occasionally seeds and grains.
• Upland Sandpipers lay 4 eggs which hatch in 21 to 27 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
• Upland Sandpipers populations are in decline due to loss of habitat.
• A group of sandpipers can be called a “fling”, “hill”, “bind”, “contradiction” or a “time-step” of sandpipers.
• Upland Sandpipers can live to be more than 8 years of age.

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