Sanderling

Sanderling

Information

Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Scolopacidae. Length: 20-21 cm. Wingspan: 40-45 cm. Presence: Habitual,Invernante,De paso.

Description

Small head and eyes Long beak

Breading start in May/June. The female sanderlings puts 3/4 eggs in a nest and she incubates them for 24-27 days.The babies are born in 17 days and they start flying in 17 days.

White and grey feathers

Short tail and legs

Where does it live?

They usually lives in the norht and south.

• We can find sanderling in the Spain costs from autum and winter.
• The sanderling eats many insects, too, they eat crustaceans.

They usually lives in coast zones.

They usually go to Canary Islands.

Similar birds:

Sanderling

Little Stint

Dunlin

Length: 14-15,5cm. Wingspan: 27-30cm. Little Stint is in Spain.

Length: 16-20cm. Wingspan: 38-43cm. Dunlin is in Spain.

Sanderling is similar to other birds species:

They usually lives in coasts,usually in south zones.

Endangered Status

1.Invasor water plants

Why is it in danger?

Some water plants are destroying sanderling´s nests.

The humans are catching illegally and humans build much buildings.

2.Habitat destruction

Humans destroy much habitats, incluited, sanderling habitats.

3.Edifications

When humans build buildings, they take off rivers and trees.

How can we help?

1.Rivers

2.Trees

Sanderlings usually lives in rivers, we can clean the rivers to help this birds.

Birds usually lives in trees, we can plant trees to help all birds.

3.Rubbish

4.Others

If we recicle the rubbish, much animals, incluited sanderlig, will had cleaned habitats.

You can help sanderling with food,water,bird's houses... I can't count all posibilities!

Other measures

Check the video.