Editing Sharp-tailed sandpiper (section)

== Habitat ==
In Siberia the breeding ground is mostly [[tundra]] made up of peat-hummock and [[lichen]]. On passage between breeding and wintering areas they favor the muddy edges of shallow freshwater or brackish wetlands with grass, emergent or inundated sedges, saltmarsh or other low vegetation. These include swamps, lakes, lagoons, and pools near coasts, waterholes, dams, saltpans and hypersaline salt lakes inland.<ref name=":0" /> In [[Alaska]] they seem to prefer coastal moist graminoid meadows and riverine intertidally exposed mudbanks.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Handel |first1=Colleen M. |last2=Robert E. Gill |first2=Jr |date=1 September 2010 |title=Wayward Youth: Trans-Beringian Movement and Differential Southward Migration by Juvenile Sharp-tailed Sandpipers |url=https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64546 |journal=Arctic |language=en |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=273–288 |doi=10.14430/arctic1492 |issn=1923-1245 |doi-access=free |access-date=5 June 2023 |archive-date=23 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123231729/https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64546 |url-status=live }}</ref> In [[Australia]] they are largely found around wetlands, preferring freshwater inland wetlands with grassy edges.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=July 2021 |title=Sharp-tailed sandpiper - Threatened Fauna of the Hunter and Mid Coast |url=https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/1325300/SharpTailedSandpiper-web.pdf |access-date=5 June 2023 |website=Local Land Services |archive-date=5 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605105702/https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/1325300/SharpTailedSandpiper-web.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Once the ephemeral terrestrial wetlands have dried out, they tend to be seen on coastal mudflats, salt marsh and brackish lagoons and less often on similar wet fields of short grass.<ref name=":0" /> Other areas they have been spotted in Australia include around sewage farms, flooded fields, mangroves, rocky shores and beaches.<ref name=":1" />