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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis Praderito Canelo,
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Photo: D. Paulson
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis Praderito Canelo,
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A buff-colored sandpiper with a white eye ring. Length: 18-20 cm.; weight: male 53-117 g., female: 46-81 g. Breeds on the high Arctic tundra of Alaska, Canada and eastern Siberia. Groups of males display in leks---a regular location where males try to attract a female by and strutting and flashing their white wing linings. Usually only one male in a lek attracts all the females. This sandpiper winters in northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil. An accidental visitor on short grass fields and pond edges in Puerto Rico during migration. TAXONOMY: CHARADRIIFORMES; SCOLOPACIDAE; Scolopacinae |
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Photo: G. Lasley
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Photo: G. Lasley
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