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Buff-breasted Sandpiper : Rare Bird Sighted

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Buff-breasted Sandpiper : Rare Bird Sighted

A rare bird from the arctic tundra, Buff-breasted sandpiper, was sighted in Kannur, Kerala.

  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper is one of the most delicately beautiful of the shorebirds.
  • It breeds in the open arctic tundra of North America and usually in winters in South America.
  • It is a champion long-distance migrant, leaving high-Arctic dry tundra nesting grounds and migrating thousands of miles to winter on the grasslands of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
  • Conservation status
    • IUCN: Near Threatened

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