"Resident thruout the year in the Aleutian Islands!"
Bent says this is the tamest, least suspicious, quietest and hardiest of the Sandpipers. "It moves so deliberately and matches its surroundings so well that we are constantly coming upon it unexpectedly." Its habits are similar to the Aleutian Sandpiper. In Winter plumage less "purple" than the two foregoing species.
West coast of Alaska and adjacent Islands.