Calidris melanotos

With estimates of up to 1.6 million birds, a G5 ranking would be appropriate.

BREEDING: western and northern Alaska, northern Yukon, northern Mackenzie, and Banks, Victoria, Bathurst, Devon, northern Baffin, and Southampton islands south to western Alaska, central Mackenzie, southeastern Keewatin, and south coast of Hudson Bay; and along Arctic coast of central and eastern Siberia. NON-BREEDING: southern South America from Peru, Bolivia, and southern Brazil south to central Chile and southern Argentina (AOU 1983). Siberian birds probably winter in southeastern Australia and New Zealand. Common fall migrant and rare winter visitor in Hawaii (Pratt et al. 1987). MIGRATION: through interior North America, Middle America, and northern South America. In fall (and uncommonly in spring) through eastern North America and West Indies (AOU 1983).

With an almost circumpolar distribution and an estimated global population size of 500,000 for North America (Morrison, et. al. 2006),there should be at least 300 element occurrences

Be a species that primarily uses vegetated areas rather than sandy beaches throughout most of its life cycle, there are no major threats to this species. The US Shorebird Conservation Program classifies this species of moderate concern with regardings to population trends and nonbreeding distribution and threats and of low concern relative to population size, breeding threats, and breeding distribution (Farmer, Holmes, and Pitelka, 2013).