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Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

Common Sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos)
Common Sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos)

About Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Pelicans
  • Family: Sandpipers and Allies

The common sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper, make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a basal species of the closely related genus Tringa.

Source: Wikipedia

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