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| Image Description: |
Ruff feeding in calm water |
| Image notes: |
Leg colour of both sexes can be orange-red or greenish-grey. This can be age related. |
| Species in Image: |
Ruff |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00723 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Ruff |
| Latin Name |
Philomachus pugnax |
| Latin Group Name |
Charadriiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Scolopacidae |
| Common Family Name |
Sandpipers, Snipes, Godwits, Curlews & Phalaropes |
| Description |
Fairly common passage migrant. The first autumn migrants usually arrive from mid-July onwards. Earliest spring record 20 March, Whalsay 1997 |
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