Buff-Breasted Sandpipers, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June Birds

Summary: Buff-breasted sandpipers, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June birds, as coastal northernmost Alaska and Canada avians, awe the National Audubon Society.

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buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis) under synonym of Tringa rufescens; female (left) and male (right); Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, 1835; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 53, Plate CCLXV: No copyright--United States (NoC--US), via ULS (University of Pittsburgh Library System)

Buff-breasted sandpipers, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June birds, as breeding coastal northernmost Alaska and Canada avians and as long-distance, non-breeding migrants to the South American pampas (from Quechua pampa, "flat terrain, floor, ground, land, plain, prairie, valley"), awe the National Audubon Society.

The Charadriiformes (from Greek χαραδριός, Eurasian stone curlew [Burhinus oedicnemus]” via Latin charadrius, “plover” and Latin -fōrmis, “-shaped”) shorebird order member breeds between June and August. The Scolopacidae (from Greek σκολόπαξ, “woodcock [Scolopax rusticola]” via Latin scolopax and Greek -ειδής, “-like” via Latin -idæ) wader family member chooses dry-landed over open-watered habitats. Calidris subruficollis (from Greek καλίδρις, “gray water-bird” and Latin sub, “somewhat”; rufus, “brown-red”; collis, “-necked”), described by Louis Vieillot (May 10, 1748-Aug. 24, 1830), never dives.

Buff-breasted sandpipers embrace short-grass habitats such as agricultural lands, meadows, pastures, rice fields and sod farms during migration and the South American pampas during winter non-breeding.

Buff-breasted sandpipers achieve, fast, low, straight flight patterns with rapid wingbeats over breeding habitats, migration routes and wintering habitats even as they accomplish 16,000-mile (26,000-kilometer) one-way, 32,000-mile (52,000-kilometer) round-trip migrations biannually; range map of Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), with orange=breeding, blue=non-breeding and yellow=passage; adapted from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2016) 2013 Calidris subruficollis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2: Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Physically and sexually mature female buff-breasted sandpipers on their own fashion several nests on drier raised ridges in moist to wet coastal tundra grasses and sedges.

Buff-breasted sandpiper mothers-to-be garner single-brooded nests from shallow-scraped depressions in grassy or mossy well-drained hummocks, which generate sparse linings of dead leaves, dry grasses and mosses. They annually have single-brooded clutches of 4 1.46-inch- (37-millimeter-) long, 1.02-inch- (26-millimeter-) wide, pyriform (from Latin pirum, “pear” and -fōrmis, “-shaped”) to oval, semi-glossy, smooth eggs. Each egg is cream-white, green-tinged or olive with heavy, medium to black-brown, semi-spirally elongated blotches and spots inclined more toward the larger end than the smaller.

Buff-breasted sandpipers as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June birds join in large mating-season flocks after March-May journeys from, and before September-November journeys to, South America.

Buff-breasted sandpipers, within 16 to 20 days of their birth, adopt fast, low, straight flight patterns with rapid wingbeats; Saturday, Sep. 10, 2005, 09:45: Dominic Sherony, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Incubating eggs keeps buff-breasted sandpiper mothers-to-be in their nests for 23 to 25 days, after which hatching times kindle precocial (precocious, from Latin praecox, “early-ripened”) nestlings.

Buff-breasted sandpiper nestlings look downy brown-gray on their undersides and downy white on their upper-sides when they leave, as hatched, 12-hour-old newborns, from their birth nests. Black-brown, irregular patterns that maintain white down-tipped spots mottle their backs even as their buff- and gray-striped heads manifest white-chevroned dark crown-patches and dark eye-nape stripes. They navigate on green-white feet and legs until their fledgling independence nets, for 16- to 20-day-olds, adult-like, fast, low, straight flight patterns nurtured by rapid wingbeats.

Buff-breasted sandpipers occur as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June birds who occupy North Slope borough, northern Alaska; and northern Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada.

Buff-breasted sandpiper juveniles appear duller-legged, scalier-upper-sided than physically and sexually mature buff-breasted sandpipers; Saturday, Sep. 10, 2005, 09:44: Dominic Sherony, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Juvenile buff-breasted sandpipers present buff-washed breasts above dull, yellow feet and legs; and scaly upperparts with more white-fringed feathers than physically and sexually mature buff-breasted sandpipers.

Breeding adults quarter dark, short bills; brown-spotted crowns; buff faces and heads; brown-spotted and streaked hind necks; buff-edged brown upperparts; and bright orange-yellow feet and legs. Their upper wings reveal scaly upperparts alongside of which runs one central, pale band and below which runs the same dark color as the short-tailed rump. Physical maturity secures them 7.25- to 8-inch- (18.5- to 20-centimeter-) long, 1.44- to 3.38-ounce (40- to 95-gram) bodies with 17- to 18.5-inch (43- to 47-centimeter) wingspans.

Buff-breasted sandpipers, as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June birds and Argentine, Brazilian and Uruguayan pampas transients, tender long, rising grriit, short, soft gert flight calls.

Buff-breasted sandpipers assemble in large flocks that aggregate adult singles, breeding-season mates, independent juveniles and one-parent families, all of whom ally in on-land, not over-water, forages for insect larvae, insects, seeds and spiders; Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, image of buff-breasted sandpiper assemblage in Monroe County, southwestern Illinois: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis) under synonym of Tringa rufescens; female (left) and male (right); Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S., F.L.S.; Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, 1835; John James Audubon, The Birds of America, No. 53, Plate CCLXV: No copyright--United States (NoC--US), via ULS (University of Pittsburgh Library System) @ https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3Aaud0265; Birds of America, vol. V (1842), No. 67, Plate 331, opposite page 264, Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40419915; Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8589061773/

Buff-breasted sandpipers achieve, fast, low, straight flight patterns with rapid wingbeats over breeding habitats, migration routes and wintering habitats even as they accomplish 16,000-mile (26,000-kilometer) one-way, 32,000-mile (52,000-kilometer) round-trip migrations biannually; range map of Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), with orange=breeding, blue=non-breeding and yellow=passage; adapted from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2016) 2013 Calidris subruficollis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 @ https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22693447/111804064: Simon Pierre Barrette (Cephas), CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calidris_subruficollis_map.svg

Buff-breasted sandpipers, within 16 to 20 days of their birth, adopt fast, low, straight flight patterns with rapid wingbeats; Saturday, Sep. 10, 2005, 09:45: Dominic Sherony, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buff-breasted_Sandpiper_in_flight_(3972953420).jpg; Dominic Sherony, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/9765210@N03/3972953420/

Buff-breasted sandpiper juveniles appear duller-legged, scalier-upper-sided than physically and sexually mature buff-breasted sandpipers; Saturday, Sep. 10, 2005, 09:44: Dominic Sherony, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tryngites_subruficollis.jpg; Dominic Sherony, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/9765210@N03/3972177259/

Buff-breasted sandpipers assemble in large flocks that aggregate adult singles, breeding-season mates, independent juveniles and one-parent families, all of whom ally in on-land, not over-water, forages for insect larvae, insects, seeds and spiders; Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, image of buff-breasted sandpiper assemblage in Monroe County, southwestern Illinois: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buff-breasted_Sandpipers_(8425480582).jpg; Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (Wildreturn), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildreturn/8425480582/

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