-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

-Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

-Birds (Class Aves)

-Shorebirds and Allies (Order Charadriiformes)

-Sandpipers and Allies (Family Scolopacidae)

-Calidris Sandpipers (Genus Calidri)

-Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)

This is the sandpiper most likely to be seen on small bodies of water inland. On sandy riverbanks, lake shores, and edges of sewage treatment ponds, little flocks of Least Sandpipers fly up to circle the area and then settle again, giving thin, reedy cries as they go. Forages for crustaceans, insects and snails, mostly by walking slowly and picking up tiny items from surface of ground. Sometimes probes in mud for food.