Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

11 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

1 Kentish Plover> / 2 Hudsonian Whimbrel> / 3 Hudsonian Dunlin> / 4 Interesting Wader> / 5 Knots> / 6 Baltic Dunlin> / 7 Sanderlings Calidris alba in a storm> / 7A Sanderlings ready to fly home> / 8 Little Stint Calidris minuta> / 9 Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis> / 10 Dunlin Calidris alpina in juvenile plumage> / 11 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus> / 12 Golden Plover> / 13 Cannibalism in the cold> / 14 A plumage for all seasons> / 15 American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica> / 16 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva> / 17 European Curlew Numenius a.arquata> / 18 Eastern or Russian Curlew Numenius a.orientalis> / 19 Steppe Curlews Numenius arquata suschkini> / 20a Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia> / 20b Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia> / 21 The Greenland ringed plover> / 22 The Ringed plover> /
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Engelmoer & Roselaar (1998) recognize four subspecies of Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
i.e. nominate phaeopus from Scandinavia to ca. SW Taimyr; islandicus from Iceland to Scotland;
alboaxillaris from the steppes between the lower Wolga to SE of the Urals; variegatus
from Taimyr to NE Siberia. There are differences in size between the various subspecies but on the
axillaries of islandicus the white parts are mostly not wider than the brown bars; in phaeopus the
white parts are mostly wider than the brown bars; in alboaxillaris the axillaries are white
or have a few brown bars at most; variegatus has a whitish lower back spotted with brown and a
barred white rump while it's axillaries have broad brown bars.

Engelmoer, Meinte and Cees S.Roselaar. 1998. Geographical Variation in Waders. Kluwer Academic
Publishers.Dordrecht/Boston/London: ISBN 0-7923-5020-0

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Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 11042007 1 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 11042007 2 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 11042007 3 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 11042007 4 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 11042007 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 21042008 Hansweert, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 21042008 0116 Hansweert, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 21042008 0142 Hansweert, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 21042008 0158 Hansweert, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 22042008 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius p.variegatus 22042008 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius p.variegatus 22042008 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius p.variegatus 22042008 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius p. alboaxillaris 29042007 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 03052007 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius p.phaeopus 05052007 Tholen, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 17052007 Hansweert, The Netherlands

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus 17052008 0509 Hansweert, The Netherlands