---
title: "Paarse strandloper"
description: "Calidris maritima — Vogels. The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/purple-sandpiper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Paarse strandloper

> Calidris maritima — Vogels. The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae.

- Scientific name: *Calidris maritima*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust), `arctic` (Poolgebied)
- iNaturalist observations: 7284
- Wikidata: [Q62359](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62359)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3856](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3856)

## Names

- en: Purple Sandpiper
- de: Meerstrandläufer
- es: Playero Oscuro
- fr: Bécasseau violet
- nl: Paarse strandloper
- pt: Pilrito-escuro
- pl: Biegus morski

## Countries with the most observations

US (2756), GB (636), CA (609), SJ (482), IS (457), NL (295), DE (291), FR (253), NO (232), PT (163), DK (126), ES (115)

## Summary

The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. This is a hardy sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America and winters further south on the Atlantic coast.

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

## Photo

![Paarse strandloper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/purple-sandpiper/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/64364316

## Machine access

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