Bird / Actitis hypoleucos
Common Sandpiper
Lowest risk
Migratory
The common sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper, make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a basal species of the closely related shank genus Tringa.
- Range elevation
- Sea level to 4,000 m
- Average mass
- 40 g
- Range length
- 18 to 24 cm
- Average length
- 20 cm
- Average wingspan
- 35 cm
- Breeding interval
- Common sandpipers breed once a year.
- Breeding season
- Breeding typically occurs during May and June.
- Range eggs per season
- 3 to 4
- Average eggs per season
- 4
- Average time to hatching
- 21 days
- Range fledging age
- 22 to 28 days
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 2 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 2 years
- Range lifespan
Status: wild - 14 (high) years
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 8 years
Pines, R. 2011. "Actitis hypoleucos" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Actitis_hypoleucos/
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