Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
- HABITAT - Spotted sandpipers are found throughout North and Central America with a breeding range that extends from the northern Arctic to the southern United States. They prefer pebble beaches and water edges of lakes, ponds, rivers, streams. In migration and winter they can be found along the coast on mudflats, beaches and breakwaters.
- DIET - Spotted Sandpipers forage actively by probing the sand, picking up items from surface of ground or water, snatching flying mid-air or by plucking small items from the shallow water. Their main diet is insects, crustaceans, other invertebrates, worms and small fish.
- FACTS - As it walks on the shores, it bobs the rear half of its body up and down in a teetering motion. When startled, it skims away low over the water, with rapid bursts of shallow wingbeats and short, stiff-winged glides.
Spotted Sandpiper GALLERY
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