Kauaʻi record · kba_bird_sanderling
Sanderling
Calidris alba
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About Sanderling
Sanderling (Calidris alba) is recorded as a winter visitor on Kauaʻi in the Bishop Museum's 2017 island checklist. This is a documented island occurrence, not a claim of an individual sighting in 2026.
Kauaʻi evidence
Bishop Museum island checklist (version 2, 2017) lists Kauaʻi status W: winter visitor. See original island table. A Hawaiʻi-level record is available, but the species needs a documented Kauaʻi observation before local ecological conclusions are drawn.
Occurrence evidence
bishop_island_checklist_2017
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Calidris alba
- Common names
- Sanderling
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Kauaʻi documented: winter visitor (2017 island checklist)
- Origin
- Indigenous visitor
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-09-13
- Evidence limits
- Island occurrence supported by the 2017 checklist; abundance and current year presence are not established here
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Shorelines
- Food and resource needs
- Beach invertebrates probed from sand at the surf edge.
- Reproduction
- Breeding on Kauaʻi is not established; seasonal resting and foraging habitat may be relevant.
- Shelter
- Shelter and structure within shorelines.
Threats and conservation
- Threats
- Beach disturbance, vehicle/foot traffic, shoreline change, and loss of wrack/invertebrate prey areas
- Conservation actions
- Track beach-edge observations, minimize disturbance in high-use shorebird areas, and keep surf-zone habitat separate from wetland mudflat habitat
- Monitoring
- Document date, place, observer, habitat, behavior, and supporting media for any Kauaʻi observation.
- Data gaps
- Update island status with dated contemporary records · Specific Kauaʻi habitat and abundance need local evidence
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Sanderling (Calidris alba) is recorded as a winter visitor on Kauaʻi in the Bishop Museum's 2017 island checklist. This is a documented island occurrence, not a claim of an individual sighting in 2026.