The Solitary Sandpiper is a slender shorebird measuring 8.3–9.1 inches in length with a wingspan of about 18 inches. Adults show dark olive-brown upperparts boldly spotted with white, a conspicuous white eye-ring, and clean white underparts; in flight, a stark white rump contrasts with darker wings. In Arizona, it is an uncommon spring and fall migrant, most often seen singly along wooded streams, irrigation canals, and marshy edges of ponds—particularly in the San Pedro and Sonoita Creek corridors—from late April into early June and again from mid-August through September. They forage quietly at the water’s edge, probing mud and picking insects and small crustaceans.
