Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)

Body Size: Medium
Foraging Guild: Aquatic prober/gleaner
Foraging Habitat: Water depth - wet to 8 cm; vegetative cover - bare to sparse
Migration Distance: Long
Migration Pattern: Narrow band
Dispersion: Moderately dispersed; 60% of total maximum sightings occur in 5 spring and 3 fall 0.1° lat-long blocks.

Six sites with highest counts (see Appendix for more information):

1. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Kansas

2. Minnewaukan Flats, Devil’s Lake, North Dakota

3. Quill Lakes, Saskatchewan

4. Gillespie Lake area, Alberta

5. Pelican Lake, Saskatchewan

6. Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Texas