Migration of dunlin calidris alpina: A worldwide overview

Abstract

Ringing recoveries have been used to determine the winter quarters for the different breeding populations of Dunlin. These are Greenlandic, Icelandic, and British breeding birds to north‐west Africa; those from the Baltic to north‐west Africa, the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf; Lapplandic to the British Isles south to north‐west Africa; western Russian to the British Isles, the Mediterranean, the Caspian and Abrabian Gulf; eastern Russian and northern Alaskan to the Asian Pacific coast; western Alaskan to the North American Pacific coast; arctic Canadian to the North American Atlantic coast. Populations that breed in different areas occupy greatly overlapping regions in winter throughout much of the range. © 1984 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.