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Calidris pugnax

流苏鹬

IUCN: Least Concern Found in China

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Taxonomy

Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
eBird Code
ruff

Distribution

breeds tundra and steppe of northwestern Europe from Scandinavia southward to northern Ukraine and eastward to far eastern Siberia; winters from central Europe southward through Africa, eastward through southern Asia to central Japan southward to Philippines

Data Sources

Species description from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.