Sharp Tailed Sandpiper

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Recently, a rare sharp-tailed sandpiper was spotted in Chandu village, Gurgaon.

About Sharp Tailed Sandpiper

• The sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata ) is a small wader bird.
• Appearance
  • It is a medium-sized sandpiper with a distinct cap.
  • Breeding adults are heavily marked with chevrons and spots on the underparts and have a rich chestnut cap and white eye-ring.
  • Nonbreeding adults are duller grayish-brown with a drab brown cap.
• Habitat: It is found in freshwater marshes and coastal mudflats, sometimes inland.
• Breeding: It breeds in northern Siberia, in an area that extends from the Lena river delta on the eastern Arctic Ocean southeastward to the Kolyma region.
• It migrates south over East Asia to its main non-breeding grounds in Australia and New Zealand.
• Diet: It feeds on seeds, worms, molluscs, crustaceans, and insects after rainfall, and often forages in agricultural pastures and in the shallow-water edges of wetlands.
• Threats: Pollution, altered sediment flows, and rise in sea levels are major reasons for its population decline.
• Conservation Status
  • IUCN Red List: Vulnerable

Source: TOI

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