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Genus of birds
Calidris is a genus of
Arctic -breeding, strongly
migratory
wading birds in the family
Scolopacidae . These birds form huge mixed flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter. Migratory shorebirds are shown to have decline in reproductive traits because of temporal changes of their breeding seasons.
[2] They are the typical "
sandpipers ", small to medium-sized, long-winged and relatively short-billed.
Their
bills have sensitive tips which contain numerous
corpuscles of Herbst . This enables the birds to locate buried prey items, which they typically seek with restless running and probing.
[3]
Taxonomy
The genus Calidris was introduced in 1804 by the German naturalist
Blasius Merrem with the
red knot as the
type species .
[4]
[5] The genus name is from
Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris , a term used by
Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds.
[6]
The genus contain 24 species:
[7]
Great knot , Calidris tenuirostris
Red knot , Calidris canutus
Surfbird , Calidris virgata
Ruff , Calidris pugnax
Broad-billed sandpiper , Calidris falcinellus
Sharp-tailed sandpiper , Calidris acuminata
Stilt sandpiper , Calidris himantopus
Curlew sandpiper , Calidris ferruginea
Temminck's stint , Calidris temminckii
Long-toed stint , Calidris subminuta
Spoon-billed sandpiper , Calidris pygmaea
Red-necked stint , Calidris ruficollis
Sanderling , Calidris alba
Dunlin , Calidris alpina
Rock sandpiper , Calidris ptilocnemis
Purple sandpiper , Calidris maritima
Baird's sandpiper , Calidris bairdii
Little stint , Calidris minuta
Least sandpiper , Calidris minutilla
White-rumped sandpiper , Calidris fuscicollis
Buff-breasted sandpiper , Calidris subruficollis
Pectoral sandpiper , Calidris melanotos
Semipalmated sandpiper , Calidris pusilla
Western sandpiper , Calidris mauri
References
^
"Scolopacidae" . aviansystematics.org . The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26 .
^ Weiser, Emily L.; Brown, Stephen C.; Lanctot, Richard B.; Gates, H. River; Abraham, Kenneth F.; Bentzen, Rebecca L.; Bêty, Joël; Boldenow, Megan L.; Brook, Rodney W.; Donnelly, Tyrone F.; English, Willow B.; Flemming, Scott A.; Franks, Samantha E.; Gilchrist, H. Grant; Giroux, Marie-Andrée (February 2018).
"Life‐history tradeoffs revealed by seasonal declines in reproductive traits of Arctic‐breeding shorebirds" . Journal of Avian Biology . 49 (2).
doi :
10.1111/jav.01531 .
ISSN
0908-8857 .
^ Nebel, S.; Jackson, D.L.; Elner, R.W. (2005).
"Functional association of bill morphology and foraging behaviour in calidrid sandpipers" (PDF) . Animal Biology . 55 (3): 235–243.
doi :
10.1163/1570756054472818 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-03 .
^
Merrem, Blasius (8 June 1804).
"Naturgeschichte" . Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung (in German). 168 . Col. 542. Published anonymously.
^
Peters, James Lee , ed. (1934).
Check-List of Birds of the World . Vol. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 280.
^ Jobling, James A (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.
84 .
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^
Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David, eds. (2019).
"Sandpipers, snipes, coursers" . World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2019 .
Scolopacidae (Numeniinae–Limosinae–Arenariinae)
Numeniinae
Limosinae
Arenariinae
Scolopacidae (Tringinae–Scolopacinae)