Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)

County List:

Rule:

Mixed Forested/Nonforested or Nonforested Landscapes

      (Fields/Pastures or Sedge Meadow or Small Grains/Forage Crops or Savanna)
   containing:
      Perches

Habitat List:

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Literature:

Habitat: This sandpiper is primarily a resident of the short-grass prairie, and North Dakota grassland provides its optimal breeding habitat. The species accepts dry and wet meadows, pastures, hayfields and mowed areas adjacent to expressways and airports, where nesting is often loosely colonial. Most Atlas Habitat Survey observations occurred in old fields and pastures and suggested a strong preference for the latter. Habitat requirements include large open fields, a generally level topography, absent or sparse shrub growth and the presence of a few elevated perches. The birds do not occupy fields of row crops.

Habitat: Breeding: Wide open pastures or grassy fields, often hayfields of alfalfa or clover, occasionally openings in forest.

Habitat: Grassy prairies, open meadows and fields. Favored nesting habitat is native grassland, with mixture of tall grass and broad-leafed weeds. In the northeast where natural grassland is now scarce, may be found most often at airports. In migration, stops on open pastures, lawns, almost never on mudflats or other typical shorebird habitats.

Diet: Mostly insects some seeds. Feeds on a wide variety of insects, including many grasshoppers, crickets, beetles and their larvae, moth caterpillars, and many others; also spiders, centipedes, earthworms, snails. Also eats some seeds of grasses and weeds and waste grain in fields.

Nest: Site is on ground among dense grass, typically well hidden, with grass arched over it. Nest is shallow scrape on ground lined with dry grass.