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Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris bairdii   [Coues, 1861]
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Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae
BTO Codes: BP , BAISA EURING No: 5060
Number in Britain: 4 records/year
Conservation Status:
UK: Unlisted
European: Not a species of concern
Global: Least Concern
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Status in UK: (A)  Scarce Visitor
Subspecies: Monotypic
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Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 43 cm Weight: M/F: 43 g    
Scientific name from: Gr.: kalidris=grey waterside bird described by Aristotle and after Spencer Baird (1744-1802) US ornithologist and author
World Distribution: BREEDS: ne Siberia & Arctic North America, WINTERS: c&s South America
Habitat: Coastal & alpine tundra, on migration mudflats, pasture
Diet: Mostly insects, some spiders and small crustaceans
TitBit: The female Baird's Sandpiper lays a clutch of eggs that is up to 120% of her body mass in four days, shortly after arriving in the Arctic, with essentially no stored fat.  
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Records and Distribution
First Record: St Kilda, 1911
Total Number of Records (1958-2004): 182 Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in: August to October
Most Recent County Records:
   Scotland: Argyll (1999), Highland , Lothian (2003), Moray & Nairn (2001), Northeast (2002), Outer Hebrides (2004), Orkney , Shetland (2002),
   North-east England: Cleveland (1997), Northumberland (2002), East Yorkshire (2004), North Yorkshire (2002), South Yorkshire (1995),
   North-west England: Cheshire , Cumbria (1979), Lancashire ,
   English Midlands: Derbyshire (1996), Leicestershire , Northamptonshire (1996), Nottinghamshire (1998), Staffordshire (1996), Warwickshire (1996),
   Eastern England: Bedfordshire , Essex (1977), Lincolnshire , Norfolk (2004), Suffolk (2004),
   South-east England: Hampshire (2000), Isle of Wight , Kent (1996), Greater London , Surrey (1983), East Sussex (1978), West Sussex (1996),
   South-west England: Cornwall (2004), Devon (2001), Dorset (1998), Gloucestershire (2001), Somerset , Isles of Scilly (2004),
   Wales: Anglesey (2001), Carmarthen (2004), Ceredigion (1998), Clwyd (1979), Glamorgan (1975), Gwynedd (1998), Gwent (2000), Pembrokeshire (1984),
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Other Names
Gaelic: Welsh: Pibydd Baird
Danish: Bairdsryle Dutch: Bairds strandloper
Finnish: Bairdinsirri French: Bécasseau de Baird
German: Baird-Strandläufer Hungarian: Baird partfutója
Icelandic: Leirutíta Irish: Gobadán Baird
Italian: Piovanello di Baird Norwegian: Gulbrystsnipe
Polish: Biegus dlugoskrzydly Portuguese: Pilrito de Baird
Spanish: Correlimos de Baird Swedish: Gulbröstad snäppa
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See Also:
All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
Wikipedia entry
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These data should be cited as:
Robinson, R.A. (2005) BirdFacts: profiles of birds occurring in Britain & Ireland (v1.21, Jun 2008). BTO Research Report 407, BTO, Thetford (http://www.bto.org/birdfacts)

 

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