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Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน

The Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos), called Drillsnäppa in Skåne, is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia), make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the Common Sandpiper and the Green Sandpiper, a basal species of the closely related shank genus Tringa.

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน

Range map
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Taxonomy
The Common Sandpiper was one of the many bird species originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name of Tringa hypoleucos. The current scientific name is from Ancient Greek. Actitis is from aktites, "coast-dweller" derived from akte, "coast", and hypoleucos is from hupo, "beneath", and leukos "white".

Listen to the Common Sandpiper / Drillsnäppa

Remarks from the Recordist

Calling for a Red fox passing by




Remarks from the Recordist

I don't know if it is a song or call, or an alarm call.

Early morning on the beach. I hear the bird and I go to try to get a picture. But the bird take of hiding in the forest.

I could hear the bird very close to me, but I could not see it. I sat down trying to play my recording to get the bird to come out so I could get a picture.

The bird never came out so I went to have another look and the bird was sitting on a branch calling or singing and I could take a picture

I got help from BirdForum to identify the bird


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Description
The adult is 18–20 cm long with a 32–35 cm wingspan. It has greyish-brown upperparts, white underparts, short dark-yellowish legs and feet, and a bill with a pale base and dark tip. In winter plumage, they are duller and have more conspicuous barring on the wings, though this is still only visible at close range. Juveniles are more heavily barred above and have buff edges to the wing feathers.

This species is very similar to the slightly larger spotted sandpiper (A. macularia) in non-breeding plumage. But its darker legs and feet and the crisper wing pattern (visible in flight) tend to give it away, and of course they are only rarely found in the same location.

Ecology
It is a gregarious bird and is seen in large flocks, and has the distinctive stiff-winged flight, low over the water, of Actitis waders. The Common Sandpiper breeds across most of temperate and subtropical Europe and Asia, and migrates to Africa, southern Asia and Australia in winter.

The eastern edge of its migration route passes by Palau in Micronesia, where hundreds of birds may gather for a stop-over. They depart the Palau region for their breeding quarters around the last week of April to the first week of May.

The Common Sandpiper forages by sight on the ground or in shallow water, picking up small food items such as insects, crustaceans and other invertebrates; it may even catch insects in flight. In the Nukumanu language of the Nukumanu Islands (Papua New Guinea), this species is usually called tiritavoi. Another Nukumanu name for it, matakakoni, exists, but this is considered somewhat taboo and not used when children and women are around.

The reason for this is that matakakoni means "bird that walks a little, then copulates", in reference to the pumping tail and thrusting head movements the Actitis species characteristically perform during foraging.

It nests on the ground near freshwater. When threatened, the young may cling to their parent's body to be flown away to safety.

The Common Sandpiper is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

It is widespread and common, and therefore classified as a species of least concern by the IUCN but is a vulnerable species in some states of Australia.


Conservation status
Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012: e.T22693264A38824217.
doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T22693264A38824217.en. Retrieved 27 August 2016.



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Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 2 December 2016
Location: Sundarban Tiger Reserve


Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 2 December 2016 - Sundarban Tiger Reserve

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 2 December 2016 - Sundarban Tiger Reserve

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 2 December 2016 - Sundarban Tiger Reserve

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 2 December 2016 - Sundarban Tiger Reserve

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 7 December 2016 - Sundarban Tiger Reserve

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 7 December 2016 - Sundarban Tiger Reserve

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 5 August 2022
Location: eBird hotspot: Gumai Beel (Chattogram), Bangladesh

Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, Drillsnäppa, イソシギ, นกเด้าดิน
Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos - 5 August 2022
Location: eBird hotspot: Gumai Beel (Chattogram), Bangladesh



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