Deep Forest Canopy
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Sandpipers and Allies

Surfbird

Calidris virgata

The surfbird is a small stocky wader in the family Scolopacidae. It was once considered to be allied to the turnstones, and placed in the monotypic genus Aphriza, but is now placed in the genus Calidris.

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