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<p> <em>Actitis hypoleucos </em>Linnaeus, 1758</p>

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  • Common Sandpiper

  • Actitis hypoleucos Linnaeus, 1758

  • Scolopacidae

  • The common sand piper is a small wader bird with a short neck and legs and a long tail. It has brown plumage on its dorsal surface, head and chest and white on its ventral surface and on its flanks, and its legs are green. It can grow to be 20 cm long and have 35 cm span.

  • Ria Formosa Nature Park

    Estuário do Tejo Nature Reserve

    Estuário do Sado Nature Reserve

    Sapal de C. Marim e V. R. Sto. António Nature Reserve

    Litoral de Vila do Conde Regional Protected Landscape and Mindelo Ornithological Reserve

    Estuário do Douro Local Nature Reserve

  • Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

    Algarve

    Norte

  • Vulnerable (resident population | visiting pop.)

  • The common sandpiper lives on the coastal edge, estuaries, salt lakes, coastal ponds, flooded fields, water courses, weirs, bogs and quagmires.

  • All year long

  • The common sandpiper feeds on insects, spiders, molluscs, crustaceans and annelids and occasionally frogs, small fish and vegetable matter. It obtains food on the surface or walking along the floor or in the low tide.

  • The Portuguese population of this species is estimated to be of 108 individuals.