page_title: Baird's sandpiper
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Baird's sandpiper / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) Nest with Eggs SL-01799
context_page_description: Baird's sandpiper is a small shorebird. It is among those calidrids which were formerly included in the genus Erolia, which was subsumed into the genus Calidris in 1973. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The English name and specific bairdii commemorate Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19th-century naturalist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
context_section_description: Baird's sandpipers breed in the northern tundra from eastern Siberia to western Greenland. They nest on the ground, usually in dry locations with low vegetation.
  They are a long distance migrant, wintering in South America. This species is a rare vagrant to western Europe.
  Baird's sandpiper might have hybridized with the buff-breasted sandpiper.
  These birds forage by moving about mudflats, picking up food by sight. They mainly eat insects, also some small crustaceans.
caption: Eggs in a nest
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