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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
Purple Sandpipers |
| Image notes: |
Photographed at Sound Gruney, nr. Unst. These birds will breed in the Arctic. |
| Species in Image: |
Purple Sandpiper |
| Date: |
1970, 19th.Feb. |
| Area: |
Unst |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00740 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Purple Sandpiper |
| Latin Name |
Calidris maritima |
| Latin Group Name |
Charadriiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Scolopacidae |
| Common Family Name |
Sandpipers, Snipes, Godwits, Curlews & Phalaropes |
| Description |
Quite common passage migrant. Purple sandpipers breed in the Arctic and sub-Arctic, from Canada to Siberia, and as far south as the Faroe Islands. |
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