A small sandpiper with a split pale eyebrow. It breeds from northern Europe to Siberia, with the two subspecies wintering in areas including the Middle East, southern and Southeast Asia and Australia.
It is a small sandpiper with a noticeable stripe beside the eye.
Researchers surveyed nine coastal wetlands in Dalian, Liaoning, China, from August 2021 to October 2022. Surveys took place during spring tides each lunar month. They recorded 31 shorebird species overall, with species numbers and counts peaking in spring and autumn. The paper lists the Broad-billed Sandpiper under its former genus name, Limicola falcinellus.
Nine Broad-billed Sandpipers were recorded at the Diyan River estuary in May and classified as passage migrants. The species appeared at only one of the nine survey areas. Eighteen shorebird species were recorded at Diyan in May, making it one of the survey’s richest spring sites. None were seen at any of the nine sites in winter.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The Dalian survey recorded Broad-billed Sandpipers at Diyan River estuary during May passage. The paper also reports extensive coastal modification and finds that natural-wetland area and habitat diversity were important correlates of waterbird distribution across the region. The species record documents one spring stop in that changing coastal landscape.