Stilt Sandpiper
Red Knot
Great Knot
Purple Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Least Sandpiper
Long-toed Stint
Red-necked Stint
Little Stint
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Sanderling
23 cm (9") Fairly common. Pacific coast rocky shores. Breeds in Alaska tundra.
Plump. Long slightly downcurved bill. Legs greenish yellow.
Breeding; black patch on breast suggests a Dunlin but Dunlin's patch is lower on the belly.
In winter associates with Black Turnstones and Surfbirds on rocky shores.
Song: flicker-like "du-du-du".
