Semipalmated Sandpiper

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Calidris

eBird Code

semsan

Distribution

breeds tundra from eastern Chukotskiy Peninsula (northeastern Siberia) through northern Alaska and eastward in northern Canada to northern Labrador, including southern Canadian Arctic islands from Banks to Baffin; winters coasts from Isthmus of Tehuantepec and Yucatan Peninsula (southwestern Mexico) and Caribbean to far northern Chile and northeastern Brazil