SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 



FAMILY SCOLOPACID.E: SNIPES, SAND- 

 PIPERS, ETC. 



Spotted sandpiper, Actiiis macidaria. 

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Distribution: Whole of North America, 

 breeding from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of 

 ]\Iexico; migrating southward over the whole 

 of Mexico, Central America, West Indies and 

 South America to southern Brazil. 



The spotted sandpiper, peet-weet, tip-up, 

 or teeter-tail is found along the shores and 

 beaches of lakes, ponds and streams where it 

 seeks its living picking up the tiny forms of 

 marine life to be found there. Except during 

 the nesting season it usually goes about in 

 small rlocks. When disturbed it darts out 

 over the water with a startled peet-iceet, the 

 wings moving so rapidly that the tips seem to 

 be always pointing downward. When it 

 alights it stops so suddenly that it is almost 

 bowled over by the shock. Its dainty 

 dipping motion as it steps along has given 

 it the nick-names of tip-up and teeter-tail. 



The small size of the spotted sandpiper, 

 together with its grayish- white underparts, 

 spotted throat and breast and white wing 

 bars, which show plainly when it is flying, 

 make its identification easy. In its winter 

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