Grey Plover

Distribution

Breeding regions are NA, PAL. Breeding subregions are high (locally low) Arctic coasts and is. (except Ellesmere I., Greenland, Scandinavia and is. from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya). Non breeding regions are Worldwide, temperate to tropical coasts (except remote is.).

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distribution

breeds in the Arctic, in the tundra in northern Canada, Alaska and Russia. It leaves its breeding areas heading south between July and September, and juveniles depart 5 to 6 weeks after adults. In general, this species reaches the coast of Guyana and then the Gulf of Maranhão during fall migration. The return from its wintering areas (coasts of North, Central and South America) occurs between April and mid-May (Wiersma, 1996). Although there are localized records in November for the Marchantaria and Anavilhanas Islands (Stotz et al., 1992), most records are associated with coastal areas throughout the Brazilian coast and are centered in the period between September and May (WikiAves, 2016; MZUSP; MPEG; MNRJ). There are records in all months of the year for RS, but the species is recorded mainly from September to April in this state (Belton, 1994).

An overview of migratory birds in Brazil

description

Status Palearctic migrant. Uncommon Palearctic migrant to New Guinea (Bishop 2006). First recorded on Biak on 12 October 1997, one on a sports field in Biak town (SvB). In early August 2010, Dutson (2010) noted one on an unidentified small island off Biak.

The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy

discussion

LITERATURE. — Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Dowsett et al. (2013).

An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso