WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER

Photographed Culburra Beach, March, 2015

520          WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER             Calidris fuscicollis

Australia        (361)

17-19 cm. Found in shallow, muddy parts of freshwater and tidal wetlands. Breeds in Arctic Alaska and Canada; migrates to s. S America. Vagrant in Europe and elsewhere, summer records se. and sw. Aust. Vagrant.    Note: This is only the seventh time recorded in Australia, and the first record since 1988.