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325   CURLEW SANDPIPER (6 17 2016) barrow, alaska  03 copy🐦

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SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦Curlew Sandpiper

Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763)

Kuovisirri (Calidris ferruginea) on vuosittain Suomessa vieraileva pitkäkoipinen rantalintu. Lajin kuvaili tieteelle Erik Pontoppidan vuonna 1763.

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≈ 1/1,070th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.06 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Curlew Sandpiper

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
20 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
Coastal
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

Volume l
0.1 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 Curlew 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. ›genusCalidris
  7. ›speciesCalidris ferruginea
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyScolopacidae
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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
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In other languages
Bécasseau cocorli (fr), krombekstrandloper (nl), 弯嘴滨鹬 (zh), Biegus krzywodzioby (pl), Calidris ferruginea (es), sarlós partfutó (hu) … and 25 more languages
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