Baird's sandpipers are found in estuaries and tidal mudflats with low grasses, and along pools, ponds, lakes, streams, and alkali flats. It occurs the length of the coast. In the interior, it occurs in northeast California, the Central Valley, Mono Basin and Owens Valley, and in mountain lakes in the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada. A shorebird, always associated with water. Nest in coastal and alpine tundra during June and July from northwest Siberia to Greenland.
Most migration is over the North American prairies.
The birder's handbook. Simon and Schuster, New York. Hayman, P., J. Marchant, and T. Prater. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Jehl, J. R. Jr. 1979.