Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
On my recent trip to Costa Rica I only saw one species of shorebird. It was the Spotted Sandpiper. Many species of shorebirds pass through the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica during fall migration, but most of these pass between the middle of August and the end of October. I was there from August 1-10, just a few days too early to see any of these migrants.
This is the eBird range map of observations during June and July, essentially the breeding season.
Spotted Sandpipers breed widely throughout the western hemisphere as you can see on the eBird range map. It seemed strange to see this familiar breeding sandpiper I see in the Puget Sound area also behaving in the same way thousands of miles south of where I usually see it. This bird is in basic plumage, and I suspect that they breed earlier and molt earlier down there.
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