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https://www.vogelwarte.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2380_1.jpg16001200Considering the scarcity of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper on the eastern coast of North America and its small world population, it seems paradoxical that it ranks among those American waders which are most frequently blown across the Atlantic to Europe. During autumn, it crosses the North-American continent along a narrow corridor to the Gulf of Mexico. From there it appears to fly non-stop to its wintering places in South America. For the breeding birds of northeast Siberia, this corresponds with a yearly journey round the earth.