Species profile
Rock Sandpiper
Calidris ptilocnemis
Quick answer
Breeding regions are PAL, NA. Breeding subregions are coastal low Arctic to subarctic tundra of far n Pacific: e Chukotskiy Pen. to (disjunctly) s Kamchatka, Commander and (perhaps) n Kuril is. (e Russia), Aleutian and Bering Sea is., w Alaska from Seward Pen. to Gulf of Alaska is.. Non breeding regions are rocky subarctic to temperate coasts: Hokkaido (n Japan, w North Pacific; rare) to c California (e North Pacific).
- Scientific name
- Calidris ptilocnemis
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Calidris
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Rock Sandpiper in your journal
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