Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
About the Purple Sandpiper
The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. This is a hardy sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America and winters further south on the Atlantic coast.
A real field recording of the Purple Sandpiper. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in France, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 97 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.