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The Sandpiper 

       The Sandpiper's scientific name is Actitis hypoleucos. These birds live on the sandy coast, river banks, and sometimes they can even go up to the mountains. The domain is Eukarya, the kingdom is Animalia, the phylum is Chordata, the class is Aves, the order is Charadriiformers, the family is Scolopacidae, the genus is Actitis, and the species is Hypoleucos. Some of their adaptations is that both parents keep the eggs warm for at least three weeks, some of the birds will throw their wings as a warning, and the male will also guard the female, the nest, and the territory. Sandpipers are brown, they have a little white-yellow line near the eyes, and they have a white stomach. The female is the only that can build the nest, breeding starts around May and June, around twenty-one days until the eggs hatch, and these birds are also a heterotrophic. They can eat a lot of things like insects, crustaceans, and much more. Crustaceans means lobsters, crabs, shrimp, small fish, etc.