---
title: "Piaskowiec"
description: "Calidris alba — Ptaki. The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/sanderling
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Piaskowiec

> Calidris alba — Ptaki. The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird.

- Scientific name: *Calidris alba*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże), `arctic` (Arktyka)
- iNaturalist observations: 85135
- Wikidata: [Q58958](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58958)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3849](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3849)

## Names

- en: Sanderling
- de: Sanderling
- es: Playero blanco
- fr: Bécasseau sanderling
- nl: Drieteenstrandloper
- pt: Pilrito-das-praias
- pl: Piaskowiec

## Countries with the most observations

US (50489), CA (4161), ES (3177), MX (3073), PT (2911), GB (1967), FR (1807), NL (881), RU (827), DE (710), IN (539), BR (537)

## Summary

The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird. It is a circumpolar Arctic breeder, being among the most extreme northern breeding birds in the world, nesting only on the coldest tundra, north of the 5°C July isotherm; in Europe, its southernmost breeding locality is Svalbard, where only a handful (5–15) pairs breed. It is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to South America, western and southern Europe, Africa, and Australia. It is highly gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks on coastal mudflats or sandy beaches.
It is somewhat unlike other small sandpipers in appearance, in particular…

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

## Photo

![Piaskowiec](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sanderling/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193294104

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sanderling?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).