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Least sandpiper
Calidris minutilla

minutilla

Size: 6 inches
Overall Color: gray and white
Occurrence: near water
Diet: insects, water arthropods
Nest: shallow depression
Field Identification: short yellowish or greenish legs, brown breast, short thin pointed bill
Season: winter


Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: 31 Scolopacidae (sandpipers, peeps,phalaropes,curlews)
Genus: Calidris
Species: minutilla

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