Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) - HBW 3, p. 515
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 Enlarge map
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calls. Locality Icapuí, Ceará State, Brazil
(ssp morinella)
Ciro Albano 9 September 2006 4 years ago 3
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