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Calidris fuscicollis (White-rumped Sandpiper)

Synonyms: Calidris fusicollis; Erolia fuscicollis; Heteropygia fuscicollis; Tringa fuscicollis (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) is a small shorebird that breeds in the northern tundra of Canada and Alaska. This bird can be difficult to distinguish from other similar tiny shorebirds; these are known collectively as "peeps" or "stints".
View Wikipedia Record: Calidris fuscicollis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.1664
EDGE Score: 2.49868
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  44 grams
Birth Weight [3]  5 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Southern Cone
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Freshwater lakes and rivers
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  80 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  17 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  1,700,000
Incubation [3]  22 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [6]  Polygyny
Maximum Longevity [1]  7 years
Migration [7]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [8]  15 inches (.37 m)
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Darina solenoides[9]
Laeonereis pandoensis[9]
Travisia olens[9]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Charadrius falklandicus (Two-banded Plover)3
Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian Godwit)1
Micropogonias furnieri (Whitemouth drummer)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Arhythmorhynchus villoti[10]
Nadejdolepis litoralis <Unverified Name>[10]
Nadejdolepis paranitidulans[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9PREY SELECTION AND FORAGING PATTERNS OF THE WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (CALIDRIS FUSCICOLLIS) AT PENÍNSULA VALDÉS, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA, María de los Ángeles Hernández & Luis Oscar Bala, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 18: 37–46, 2007
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0