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Eskimo Curlew

A vanishing species?

Appendix 5


Scientific names of birds referred to in the text, based on the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list 1983.

Common Name Scientific Name
Red-throated Loon   Gavia stellata
Trumpeter Swan   Cygnus buccinator
Greater White-fronted Goose   Anser albifrons
Brant   Branta bernicla
American Black Duck   Anas rubripes
Common Eider   Somateria mollissima
King Eider   Somateria spectabilis
Harlequin Duck   Histrionicus histrionicus
0ldsquaw   Clangula hyomalis
Osprey   Pandion haliaetus
Bald Eagle   Haliaeetus leucocephalis
Golden Eagle   Aquila chrysaetos
Peregrine Falcon   Falco peregrinus
Gyrfalcon   Falco rusticolus
Spruce Grouse   Dendragapus canadensis
Willow Ptarmigan   Lagopus lagopus
Rock Ptarmigan   Lagopus mutus
Common Hen   Gallus gallus
Whooping Crane   Grus americana
Black-bellied Plover   Pluvialis squatarola
Lesser Golden-Plover   Pluvialis dominica
Semipalmated Plover   Charadrius semipalmatus
Killdeer   Charadrius vociferus
Mountain Plover   Charadrius montanus
Greater Yellowlegs   Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs   Tringa flavipes
Solitary Sandpiper   Tringa solitaria
Willet (Eastern and Western)   Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
Upland Sandpiper   Bartramia longicauda
Little Curlew   Numenius minutus
Eskimo Curlew   Numenius borealis
Whimbrel   Numenius phaeopus
Long-billed Curlew   Numenius americanus
Hudsonian Godwit   Limosa haemastica
Ruddy Turnstone   Arenaria interpres
Red Knot   Calidris canutus
Sanderling   Calidris alba
Semipalmated Sandpiper   Calidris pusilla
Western Sandpiper   Calidris mauri
Least Sandpiper   Calidris minutills
Pectoral Sandpiper   Calidris melanotos
Purple Sandpiper   Calidris maritima
Dunlin   Calidris alpine
Stilt Sandpiper   Calidrs himantopus
Buff-breasted Sandpiper   Tryngites subruficollis
Short-billed Dowitcher   Limnodromus griseus
Long-billed Dowitcher   Limnodromus scolopaceus
Red-necked Phalarope   Phalaropus lobatus
Jaeger   Stercorarius
Parasitic Jaeger   Stercoranus parasiticus
Common Murre   Uria aalge
Razorbill   Alca torda
Atlantic Puffin   Fratercula arctuca
Passenger Pigeon   Ectopistes migratorius
Carolina Parakeet   Conuropsis carolinensis
Snowy Owl   Nyctea scandiaca
Bluebird   Sialia
Lapland Longspur   Calcarius lapponicus

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