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Title: Distribution and Migration of North American Shorebirds
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wells W. Cooke
Subjects: Shore birds--North America.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Biological Survey
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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l 10 and May 27; the other11 were taken in the fall from July 30 to November 10. As wouldbe expected, most of the specimens are from near the Atlantic coast;only 5 occurred in the interior, the westernmost being the one atEnglish Lake, Indiana. The breeding range of the ruff is from Great Britain to centralSiberia and north to the Arctic coast. The bird winters in Burma,India, and to the southern part of Africa. It has wandered east inAsia to Japan and the Commander Islands, but has not yet been de-tected on the western coast of America. Upland Plover. Bariramia longicauda (Bechst.). Breeding range.—The upland or field plover^ sometimes called theBartramian sandpiper, is one of the few shorebirds that nest commonlyin the Mississippi Valley. Early in the settlement of this region,much more than half the upland plovers probably nested withinthe boundaries of the United States. The center of abundance duringthe breeding season was the prairie region from Kansas to Manitoba. B Plate II.
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Upland Plover (Bartramia longicauda). i im \\i» PI n\ : 1;. The numbers were noj greatly diminished bo I«»iil as thi for stock purposes, but recently the birds have rapidly d<At the present time the species breeds south to southern (; ill: northern Itah (Kidgway); northern < Rock* central Oklahoma Merrill . southern Missoiu outhern Indiana (Butler), northern Virginia (Qrinnan) and central Maryland ler). The summer range extends north t southern Maineton), southern Ontario (Renfrew; Clarke, and -outhern Mi«■ 11 i-pui (Wood). Then it bends far to the northward through centralWisconsin Kumlien and Hollister) to centra) Ceewatin ■<Jape Eskimo;Preble), southern Mackenzie (Fori Smith; Preble), northern Yukon(MDougall), and to the Kowak River in northwestern Ai msend). Stragglers are not uncommon in the Maritime Prov-inces and have occurred in Newfoundland (Keek-1 and to Godbout,Quebec Merriam). The species is not common east of Michigan norwest of the Rocky Mountain

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