WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER Calidris fuscicollis FAUNA PARAGUAY

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WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER Calidris fuscicollis
The White-rumped Sandpiper is the commonest small sandpiper in Paraguay and is extremely similar to the much rarer Baird´s Sandpiper. As you might expect the easiest way to tell them apart is that this species has a white rump and Baird´s does not! White-rumped breeds in the Arctic and winters on the coast of southern South America, with large numbers passing through Paraguay on the southbound migration, some of them finding it so much to their liking that they decide to pass the entire winter here.

FIGURE 1 - Adult on passage, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 2 - Adult on passage, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Paul Smith September 2006).
FIGURE 3 - Adult on passage, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 4 - Adult on passage, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Alberto Esquivel undated).
FIGURE 5 - Adult on passage, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Alberto Esquivel undated).
FIGURE 6 - Flock, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 7 - Adult moulting out of breeding plumage, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 8 - Adult lateral view, location unknown (Juan Klavins undated).

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