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Broad-billed Sandpiper

Calidris falcinellus

Classification

Class
Aves

The broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) is a small wading bird. The scientific specific name falcinellus is the diminutive from Latin falx, falcis, "a small sickle". It was formerly treated in its own monospecific genus Limicola, but this was found to be embedded within the wider genus Calidris, into which it was transferred in 2004.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 2,125Germany · 234France · 150Spain · 117Italy · 77United Kingdom · 68Switzerland · 15Belgium · 11