Broad-billed Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Calidris falcinellus

The broad-billed sandpiper is a small wading bird. 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.

Scientific name
Calidris falcinellus
Family
Sandpipers and Allies
IUCN status
VU