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Migration of the sandpipers
Every summer, over 300,000 semi-pileated sandpipers migrate from the Canadian Arctic to the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick to rest and feed before their final flight to South America. This captures the awesome spectacle of them arriving on the shoreline.
The semipalmated sandpiper is a very small shorebird. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific ''pusilla'' is Latin for "very small".
It is sometimes separated with other "stints" in ''Erolia,'' but, although these apparently form a monophyletic group, the present species' old genus ''Ereunetes'' had been proposed before ''Erolia''.
Similar species: Shorebirds And Allies
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Uploaded Dec 31, 2014. Captured Jul 28, 2014 12:49.
