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Side-by-Side Comparison

Merkmal	Broad-billed Sandpiper	American Woodcock
Wissenschaftlicher Name	Calidris falcinellus	Scolopax minor
Ordnung	Charadriiformes	Charadriiformes
Familie	Scolopacidae	Scolopacidae
Erhaltungsstatus	Vulnerable	Least Concern
Länge	—	—
Flügelspannweite	19,8 cm (7.8 in)	26,0 cm (10.2 in)
Gewicht	48,0 g (1.69 oz)	192,0 g (6.77 oz)
Ernährung	--	--
Gelegegröße	3-4	3-4
Population Trend	—	—

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Habitat Comparison

Gemeinsame Lebensräume

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Broad-billed Sandpiper only

🌿 Feuchtgebiet 🌾 Grasland

American Woodcock only

🌲 Wald

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Erhaltungsstatus

Vulnerable

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Least Concern

American Woodcock

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About These Birds

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper: 16–18 cm, small sandpiper with a distinctive kinked drooping bill-tip, split supercilium, and chestnut-and-black breeding plumage. Breeds on boreal bogs of Scandinavia and Siberia; winters on mudflats of East Africa, South Asia, and Australia. NT. Feeds by probing soft mud. Long-distance migrant.

American Woodcock

American Woodcock: 25–31 cm, rotund crepuscular wader with cryptic dead-leaf plumage, large eyes set high on the head, and an extremely long flexible bill for probing earthworms. Inhabits moist woodland and shrubby margins in eastern North America; winters in southern US. Famous for spiralling courtship 'sky dance.' Migratory.

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