---
title: "Common Sandpiper"
description: "Actitis hypoleucos — Birds. The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/common-sandpiper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Sandpiper

> Actitis hypoleucos — Birds. The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader.

- Scientific name: *Actitis hypoleucos*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 66088
- Wikidata: [Q18850](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18850)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3978](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3978)

## Names

- en: Common Sandpiper
- de: Flussuferläufer
- es: Andarríos chico
- fr: Chevalier guignette
- nl: Oeverloper
- pt: Maçarico-das-rochas
- pl: Brodziec piskliwy

## Countries with the most observations

RU (14194), ES (4710), FR (3302), PT (3105), IT (2817), IN (2718), TW (2371), GB (2349), JP (1338), DE (1323), HK (1304), SG (1278)

## Summary

The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper (A. macularia), make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a member of the closely related genus Tringa.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sandpiper

## Photo

![Common Sandpiper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-sandpiper/medium.jpg)

Photo: themaskedlapwing · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/318500551

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-sandpiper?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).