Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae) - HBW 3
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
French: Tournepierre à collier
German: Steinwälzer
Spanish: Vuelvepiedras Común
Other common names: Turnstone
Taxonomy: Tringa Interpres Linnaeus, 1758, Gotland, Sweden.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- interpres (Linnaeus, 1758) - Axel Heiberg I and Ellesmere I (N Canadian Arctic), Greenland, N Eurasia and NW Alaska; winters on coasts of W Europe, Africa, S Asia, Australasia and S Pacific islands, with some also on Pacific coast of North America, from California to at least Mexico.
- morinella (Linnaeus, 1766) - NE Alaska and most of Arctic Canada; winters from South Carolina and Gulf of Mexico to SC Chile and N Argentina.
- Least Concern
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A bird in breeding plumage turning stones and feeding Cape May, New Jersey, USA (ssp morinella)
Robert Schaefer 16 May 2006 2 years ago 28 sec 4.7 -
Confrontations between birds of a group feeding on a rocky beach Port Mahon, Kent County, Delaware, USA (ssp morinella)
Josep del Hoyo 5 May 2006 2 years ago 37 sec 4.6 -
A group of birds feeding on a rocky beach Port Mahon, Kent County, Delaware, USA (ssp morinella)
Josep del Hoyo 5 May 2006 2 years ago 34 sec 4.3 -
A bird in non-breeding plumage foraging near a group of Sea Lions Plaza Sur, Galapagos Islands (ssp morinella)
Anna Motis 20 August 2005 2 years ago 39 sec 4.3 -
An adult in basic plumage foraging on an exposed marine encrusted rock Ventura County, California, USA (ssp morinella)
Don DesJardin 31 October 2007 2 years ago 22 sec 4.2 -
A group of birds bickering Seaplane ramp, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (ssp morinella)
Curt Kessler 31 October 2007 1 year ago 37 sec 4.2
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Adult breeding Caimare Chico, Zulia, Venezuela
kperezleon 7 June 2008 39 weeks ago 4.4 -
A couple of birds sleeping on a pier. The two birds in the middle are completely in summer plumage. Den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands
Frank Derriks 5 May 2009 43 weeks ago 4.2 -
Juvenile Caimare Chico, Zulia, Venezuela (ssp morinella)
kperezleon 7 September 2008 39 weeks ago 4.2 -
Adult non-breeding Caimare Chico, Zulia, Venezuela (ssp morinella)
kperezleon 7 June 2008 39 weeks ago 4.1 -
A bird almost completely in summerplumaga on a pier. Den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands
Frank Derriks 5 May 2009 43 weeks ago 4.1 -
Bird on the rocks Pucusana, Lima, Peru
Nature Expeditions... 1 January 2009 31 weeks ago 4
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calls. Icapuí, Ceará, Brazil
(ssp morinella)
Ciro Albano 9 September 2006 51 weeks ago 3
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