Purple Sandpiper

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Calidris

eBird Code

pursan

Distribution

breeds montane tundra from Greenland and Iceland eastward through Arctic Europe and Russia to Taymyr Peninsula (north-central Siberia), also Banks to southern Ellesmere and Baffin islands (north-central Canada); winters rocky North Atlantic coasts from Iceland and Faroe Islands to western Europe, and Labrador and Gulf of St. Lawrence (southeastern Canada) southward to North Carolina