Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

-Waders

CHARADRIIFORMES

Scolopacidae

Micropalama himantopus
Sedge tundra; in migration mudflats, wet fields, ponds, marshes.
From n Alaska w to Prudhoe Bay, n Yukon, n Mackenzie and s Victoria I., se to se Keewatin, ne Manitoba and n Ontario at Cape Henrietta Maria.
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Tryngites subruficollis
Dry grassy tundra; in migration short grassland, fields, mudflats.
From n Alaska w to Barrow area, n Yukon, nw Mackenzie and Banks, Melville, Bathurst and Devon islands s to s Victoria, Jenny Lind and King William islands.
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Philomachus pugnax
Grassy tundra, lakes, ponds, swampy meadows, farmland; in migration also mudflats and wet fields.
From s British Isles and n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia incl. New Siberian Is., to Anadyrland, and s locally to nc Europe and c Russia, Kirghiz steppes and sw Siberia in Altai and Lake Shira. Nw Alaska at Point Lay.
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Micropalama himantopus

Stilt Sandpiper

Vagrant

Europe, N.Africa

* no map

Tringites subruficollis

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Vagrant

Europe, Spitsbergen, Azores

Canary Is, N Africa

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Philomachus pugnax

Ruff

[Reeve = female]

Locally common

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SNIPES

Lymnocryptes minimus
Swamps, bogs, wet grass; marshes and flooded fields in migration.
From n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Kolyma River,
s to Latvia, c Russia and c Siberia.
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Gallinago gallinago
Moist grassy areas, tundra; wet areas during migration.
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The subspecies groups differ in courtship behavior and morphology and may be separate species.
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G. g. gallinago.
From Iceland, Faroe, Orkney and Shetland islands, British Isles and Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Kamchatka, s to Azores, s Europe, sw,c Russia, Kirghiz steppes, Turkestan, w China, s Siberia from Transbaicalia to Sakhalin and Manchuria; sw Alaska on the Aleutian is. of Attu and Shemya.
G. g. delicata.
From n Alaska, n Yukon, nw,c Mackenzie and s Keewatin e across n Canada to c Labrador, s to s Alaska w to Unalaska and Aleutians, s to c Calif., ec Arizona, n New Mexico, n Colorado, w Nebraska, and from c Iowa e across c,n U.S. to nw Pennsylvania, n New Jersey and New England.
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Gallinago media
Marshes, wet grassland, meadows, moist scrub.
From Scandinavia e across n Russia to w Siberia and s to the Baltic countries, n Poland, sw,c Russia, Ukraine and sw Siberia in the Altai.
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