Distribution and Migration of North American Shorebirds (1910) (14748474974)

Identifier: shorebird00cook (find matches)
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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thereare no spring migration data for the whole distance between Peruand Texas. In the State of Texas the species was noted April 22,1887, in Refugio County (Sennett), and April 23, 1877, at Gainesville(Ragsdale). The first were seen at Fort Chipewyan, May 24, 1901(Preble); Fort Simpson, May 29, 1860 (Ross); Yukon delta, May 30,1879 (Nelson); St. Michael, May 31, 1880 (Nelson); Point Barrow,June 8, 1882 (Murdoch), and June 6, 1883 (Murdoch). Eggs were taken on the Barren Grounds near Franklin Bay, June26, 1864, and June 28, 1865 (MacFarlane); and at Point Barrow,June 18, 1883 (Murdoch). Fall migration.—The fall migration of this species and of mostother waders begins in July, and so rapidly do the birds move souththat they have been noted the last of this month in Nebraska (Bruner,YVolcott, and Swenk); Gainesville, Tex., August 4, 1883 (Ragsdale);San Jose, Costa Rica, September 7, 1890 (Cherrie); and Cienega,Colombia, September 12, 1898 (Allen). The southern part of the I Plate III.
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BP01 11 D > LNDPIP1 i;. 69 winter range in Argentina is reached earl) in October Sclater and HudsonV A \n\ carl\ migrant was taken A.uguPeru (Sharpe). Usually tin* Bpeciea is rare east ;»iRiver, but several flocks were Been August L6 Is. L874, al May wood,111., near Chicago Fisher Spotted Bandpip«r. Act it is moeulan Breeding range. 1-Vw shorebirds have so extended a breedingrange as the spotted sandpiper. It nests north to Newfoundland(Reeks), the northernmost pari of (Jngava Turner), northernMackenzie (Fort Anderson; MacFarlane), northern Alaska at ForiYukon (Lockhaii . and to the Kowak Valley in northwestern AJaska(Townsend). It breeds south to northern South Carolina (ChesterCounty; Loomis), central Alabama (Greensboro; Avery . southernLouisiana (New Orleans; Beyer), central Texas (Lacej . -outhernNew Mexico (Carlisle; Barrell), central Arizona San FranciscoMountain-: Mearns), and the southern Sierra of California (WalkerPass; Kaeding , and probably o