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Curlew sandpiper
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The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia.
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Curlew sandpiper | |
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Non-breeding plumage | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Scolopacidae |
Genus: | Calidris |
Species: | C. ferruginea |
Binomial name | |
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) | |
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Synonyms | |
Erolia ferruginea Vieillot, 1816 |
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It is strongly migratory, wintering mainly in Africa, but also in south and southeast Asia and in Australia and New Zealand.[2] It is a vagrant to North America.