Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Calidris mauri
Playero occidental, Western Sandpiper
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
Species
mauri
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Vagrant
Distribution: Lévêque et al. (1966) reported one bird Santiago bird collected on 26 October 1961 (in Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris).
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
- Harris, M.P. (1982) A field guide to the birds of Galápagos. Collins, London, 2nd ed., 160 pp.
- Lévêque, R. Bowman, R.I. & Billeb, S.L.. (1966) Migrants in the Galapagos area. Condor 68(1): 81-101.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Calidris mauri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5047. Accessed 11 June 2026.