Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea)
About the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
The spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) is a small wader which breeds on the coasts of the Bering Sea and winters in Southeast Asia. This species is highly threatened, and it is said that since the 1970s the breeding population has decreased significantly. By 2000, the estimated breeding population of the species was 350–500. Platalea pygmea was the scientific name proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It was moved to Eurynorhynchus by Sven Nilsson in 1821. It is now classified under the calidrid sandpipers. Within the genus Calidris the spoon-billed sandpiper is most closely related to the red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis).
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 10 recordings for this species: 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in China, Russia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdiirecording
- Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellusrecording
- Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginearecording
- DunlinCalidris alpinarecording
- Little StintCalidris minutarecording
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.