Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

-Waders

Dowitchers

CHARADRIIFORMES

Scolopacidae

Limosa haemastica
Grassy tundra near water; wet areas in migration.
Locally in sc,w Alaska in the Cook Inlet area, probably Kotzebue Sound and Norton Bay; Fort Anderson at the mouth of the Mackenzie River in Mackenzie; Chilcat Pass in nw British Columbia, ne Manitoba and nw Ontario.
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--haemastica Gr. haimatikod = macchiata di sangue
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Limosa lapponica
Coastal and sedge-shrub tundra; wet area in migration.
From n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia mostly n of the Arctic Circle to n Anadyrland; w,n Alaska from Wales e to Point Barrow and s
to the Yukon delta.
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Numenius minutus
Bushy mt. tundra, open forest.
C Siberia in n,c Yakutia in the Verkhoyansk and Cherski mts., possibly elsewhere s to n Mongolia, Lake Baikal and Amurland.
Sometimes included in N. borealis, but morphologically distinct.
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- --Numenius Gr noumenios, a bird mentioned by Eschilo:
by reason of it crescent-shaped bill
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Limosa haemastica

Hudsonian Godwit

Vagrant

W Europe

* no map

Limosa lapponica

Bar-tailed Godwit

Common

has bred:

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Numenius minutus

Little Curlew

Vagrant

W Europe

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Numenius borealis
Open tundra; grassland, fields, marshes, mudflats in migration.
Nearly extinct; last specimen 1962 from Barbados on Galveston Island, several more recent sight records.
Formerly in nw Mackenzie, possibly w to w Alaska at Norton Sound.
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--A vanishing species?
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Numenius phaeopus
Sedge-shrub tundra, moors, heath; other wet areas in migration.
N. p. phaeopus.
From Iceland, Faroe Is., n British Isles, n Scandinavia, n Russia and locally in n Siberia e to Anadyrland, s to Orkney and Shetland is., s Scandinavia,
c Russia and c Siberia, mostly n of Arctic Circle.
N. p. hudsonicus.
From n Alaska, n Yukon and nw Mackenzie s to w,c Alaska at Norton Sound, Alaska Range and Susitna River highlands, sw Yukon and along w Hudson Bay to nw Ontario on nw James Bay.
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Old World and New World races differ slightly in vocalizations and are sometimes treated as separate species.
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N. p. phaeopus
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- - -phaeopus Gr. phaios + pous = scuro + zampe

Numenius tenuirostris
Bogs, swampy steppe, marshy forest edge; beaches and mudflats in migration.
E Iran and sw Siberia in n Kazakhstan and w Altai.
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