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Common and Spotted Sandpipers
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Common and Spotted Sandpipers

Actitis

Actitis is a small genus of waders, comprising just two very similar bird species:

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Spotted Sandpiper

speciesActitis macularius

Common Sandpiper

speciesActitis hypoleucos

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3977.