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Birds of Australia

Common Name: Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Scientific Name: Tryngites subruficollis

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper above Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Hexham Swamp, NSW Jan 2014

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Hexham Swamp, NSW Jan 2014
This vagrant wader has only been seen just over 20 times in Australia.
They breed in the high Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and an island off Russia, on well drained tundra with tussocks and scant vegetation. It appears that one gets lost every now and then and comes here instead of South America.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper centre of Sharp-tailed Sandpipers at Hexham Swamp, NSW Jan 2014.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper behind Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Hexham Swamp, NSW Jan 2014.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper on right of Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Hexham Swamp, NSW Jan 2014

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper above Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Hexham Swamp, NSW Jan 2014

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