CLASS AVES

Spotted Sandpiper

Animals Kingdom (Animalia)

• Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

• Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

• Birds (Class Aves)

The Spotted Sandpiper is a mall shorebird. I constantly bobs its tail while working edges of streams, ponds, and lakes for invertebrates. They forage in a variety of ways. It picks up items from surface of ground or water; snatches flying insects out of the air; plucks small items from shallow water. On open flats, it may crouch low, stalk slowly, then dash forward to catch insects or small crabs. Breeding adults are brown above, with bold white wing stripe, white below with bold black spots on breast and belly. Fall birds lack black spots below, have brownish smudge at sides of breast.