Abstract
The Purple Sandpiper is breeding along arctic coasts and in alpine areas at the border of permanent snow in N Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Jan Mayen, the Faeroes, Scotland, Scandinavia, Svalbard, Bear Island, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Jozephland, Taymyr and Severnaya Zemlya (Fig. 62). It is replaced by the Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis in the Bering Sea region.
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Engelmoer, M., Roselaar, C.S. (1998). Purple Sandpiper — Calidris maritima. In: Geographical Variation in Waders. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5016-3_10
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