Broad-billed Sandpiper
Calidris falcinellus
VUVulnerable
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) is a small wader. 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.
Within the genus Calidris, the broad-billed sandpiper is most closely related to the sharp-tailed sandpiper (C. acuminata).
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Continents
Countries
- Albania
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- China
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Finland
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- New Zealand
- North Korea
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Poland
- Qatar
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Somalia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Broad-billed sandpiper
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
