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| Image Description: |
Ruff |
| Image notes: |
A Ruff feeding in a loch |
| Species in Image: |
Ruff |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00722 |
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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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