Pectoral Sandpiper

Distribution

Arctic N America and Siberia; winters to s S America, Australia

The Clements Checklist

Distribution

Breeding regions are NA, PAL. Breeding subregions are high to low Arctic wet tundra of Holarctic: Yamal Pen. (nw Siberia) e to Chukotskiy Pen., s to Anadyr, including New Siberian and Wrangel is. (ne Russia); w, n Alaska through ne Canada, including Arctic islands from Banks to Devon and Southampton (ne Canada). Non breeding regions are AU, Southern Cone : mainly wet grassland, wetland edge of subtropical and temperate zone; few to se Australia, New Zealand, Chatham Is. (e of North I., New Zealand); most to Peru, Bolivia, and s Brazil s to Tierra del Fuego; a few winter farther north; prone to extreme vagrancy.

IOC World Bird List, v

distribution

breeds on the northern coast of North America, from western and northern Alaska to northern central Canada, to Hudson Bay, as well as in northwestern Siberia. It migrates south during winter and reaches from southern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina to southern South America and southeastern Australia and New Zealand (van Gils & Wiersma, 1996). Its migration seems to be elliptic because it moves south over the western Atlantic Ocean and returns through central regions of North America. Its wintering area includes the entire Pantanal (Nunes & Tomas, 2008) and the area south of it, which makes this the second most numerous Nearctic shorebird species in a census taken in these plains (Morrison et al., 2008). There are photographic records for almost all of Brazil, but records for the northeastern region are quite scarce and restricted to September, October and February. Records in the Amazonian region are restricted to the period between August and December and those in the southeastern and southern regions are distributed from September to April (WikiAves, 2016). Museum records are distributed irregularly across several states but restricted to the period between August and N

An overview of migratory birds in Brazil

discussion

REMARK. — A vagrant species from the Boreal Regions of North America and Asia with a single observation documented by photo (Van den Bergh 2013).

An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso