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Common SandpiperAlternate name(s): "Summer Snipe" Size: 19-21 cm; wing span 35-41 cm Weight: 33-70 g |
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Photos |
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
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NON-BREEDING |
Frontal view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, September 2009]
Near-lateral view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
digging its prey out of mud
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]
Lateral view of a Common Sandpiper on its pedestal
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, September 2009]
Close-up lateral view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]
Lateral view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
hunting under water
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, September 2009]
Lateral view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
stretching a leg and wing
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, September 2009]
Near-dorsal view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, September 2009]
Dorsal view of a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, September 2009]
Dorsal view of a snoozing Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, February 2010]
Comparison between a Common Sandpiper in non-breeding
plumage, right, and a
Green Sandpiper
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]
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Additional information |
More photos were taken by us in Australia.
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Behaviour |
Common Sandpipers are well-known for bobbing their tails. This proved to be a major loss of potentially good photos during the course of our observations...
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Food, Diet |
Like other members of the Tringa, Xenus and Actitis families we have seen Common Sandpipers hunt insects (in particular flies) and other small animals along the edges of shallow water. Common Sandpipers were seen by us around fresh water.
Common Sandpiper on the point of attack - this fly, in front of the
bird's bill, did not have long to live
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]
Another fly is taken by a Common Sandpiper...
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, November 2009]
Gotcha!
[Campus of Sultan Qaboos University, near Muscat, February 2010]
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Call(s)/Song |
For this species we have recorded the following call(s)/song. The
interpretation of their meaning is our own;
comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
comspip_dw_20200807.m4a | (Poland) | Contact calls (Q&A) | © DW | |
comspip_dw_20190909.m4a | (Poland) | Contact calls (Q&A, in-flight) | © DW |
More Common Sandpiper sound recordings are available at
xeno-canto.org
.