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Actitis hypoleucos Laem Pak Bia🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus, 1758)

Der Flussuferläufer (Actitis hypoleucos) ist eine monotypische Vogelart aus der Familie der Schnepfenvögel (Scolopacidae), die ausschließlich in der Paläarktis brütet. In Mitteleuropa ist der Flussuferläufer ein verbreiteter, aber wenig häufiger Brut- und Sommervogel.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/1,290th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.05 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Sandpiper

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.05 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.05 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Sandpiper yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyScolopacidae
  6. ›genusActitis
  7. ›speciesActitis hypoleucos
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyScolopacidae
  4. genusActitis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyScolopacidae
  11. genusActitis
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Redshank — last shared an ancestor ≈ 26 million years ago.
In other languages
Chevalier guignette (fr), oeverloper (nl), 矶鹬 (zh), brodziec piskliwy (pl), Actitis hypoleucos (es), billegetőcankó (hu) … and 27 more languages
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