Editing Sharp-tailed sandpiper (section)

== Distribution and occurrence ==
Sharp-tailed sandpipers are strongly [[bird migration|migratory]], breeding solely in eastern [[Siberia]] from the [[Taymyr Peninsula]] to [[Chaunskaya Bay]] in Chukotka. They have a complex migration, with adults departing Siberia in July and juveniles in August to head south, where the majority of the population winters in [[Australasia]]. They take two main routes, with the majority of post-breeding adults flying south in flocks of less than 1000, east of [[Lake Baikal]], to the Pacific coast of [[Russia]] and the [[Yellow Sea]] coasts of [[China]] and [[Korea]]. They mostly all fly directly to Micronesia and New Guinea in late August, departing here with the onset of the wet season to northwest Australia in mid-September. They start moving towards southeast Australia with numbers peaking in December to February. The other route heads east, taking most juveniles and a few adults into [[Alaska]] across the [[Bering Strait]]. Staying here from mid-August to late October to fatten up, it is presumed they then take a direct non-stop trans-Pacific flight of more than 10,000&nbsp;km to reach [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]. Some will continue south along the Pacific coast of [[North America]] into [[Washington (state)|Washington]], less frequently to [[California]], and possibly into [[Latin America]], but only two recent records occur in [[Panama]] and [[Bolivia]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Allport |first=Gary |date=14 December 2018 |title=First records of Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata for Mozambique and continental Africa, and additional records of Pectoral Sandpiper C. melanotos in Mozambique, with comments on identification and patterns of occurrence |journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club |volume=138 |issue=4 |pages=307 |doi=10.25226/bboc.v138i4.2018.a3 |s2cid=133761524 |issn=0007-1595|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":3" />

It occurs as a rare autumn migrant to [[North America]], but in western [[Europe]] only as a very rare migrant with records in 11 different countries, mostly in the United Kingdom, between August and October. It has been recorded in the Middle East and Central Asia, six times in Kazakhstan, once in Yemen and Oman. Within the Indian Ocean they have been documented at [[Christmas Island]] four times, totalling 16 birds between October and December. There have been three recorded observations at [[Cocos Island]] in November and December; five records at the [[Chagos Archipelago|Chagos archipelago]] from September to December; and five records in [[Seychelles]], one in July, two in September to February overwintering, and two on passage in November. They have been recently documented in [[Mozambique]], recorded in southern Africa for the first time in 2018.<ref name=":0" />