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Purple sandpiper, the Glossary

The purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae.^[1]

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Birds described in 1764
Birds of Iceland
Birds of Scandinavia
Calidris
Erolia
Taxa named by Morten Thrane Brünnich

Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds

The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, or African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) is an independent international treaty developed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on Migratory Species.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Bird ringing

Bird ringing (UK) or bird banding (US) is the attachment of a small, individually numbered metal or plastic tag to the leg or wing of a wild bird to enable individual identification.

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Birding World

Birding World was a monthly birding magazine published in the United Kingdom.

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Blasius Merrem

Blasius Merrem (4 February 1761 – 23 February 1824) was a German naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, mathematician, and herpetologist.

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Cairngorms National Park

Cairngorms National Park (Pàirc Nàiseanta a' Mhonaidh Ruaidh) is a national park in northeast Scotland, established in 2003.

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Calidris

Calidris is a genus of Arctic-breeding, strongly migratory wading birds in the family Scolopacidae.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Coelopa frigida

Coelopa frigida is a species of seaweed fly or kelp fly.

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Devon Island

Devon Island (ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᑦ) is an island in Canada and the largest uninhabited island (no permanent residents) in the world.

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Dunlin

The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader in the genus Calidris. Purple sandpiper and dunlin are birds of the Arctic, Calidris and Holarctic birds.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Kelp fly

Kelp fly is one common name of species of flies in a number of families of "true flies" or Diptera.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Least-concern species

A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.

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Littorinidae

The Littorinidae are a taxonomic family of over 200 species of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha, commonly known as periwinkles and found worldwide.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Morten Thrane Brünnich

Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist.

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Mussel

Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Rare Breeding Birds Panel

The Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP) is an ornithological body which collects data on the breeding attempts and successes of the rarer species of birds breeding in the United Kingdom.

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Rock sandpiper

The rock sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis) is a small shorebird in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. Purple sandpiper and rock sandpiper are Calidris and Erolia.

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Ruddy turnstone

The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small cosmopolitan wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. Purple sandpiper and ruddy turnstone are birds of the Arctic and Holarctic birds.

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Sanderling

The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird. Purple sandpiper and sanderling are birds described in 1764, birds of the Arctic, Calidris, Erolia and Holarctic birds.

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Sandpiper

Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Svalbard

Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

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Taymyr Peninsula

The Taymyr Peninsula (Taymyrsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Far North of Russia, in the Siberian Federal District, that forms the northernmost part of the mainland of Eurasia.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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Western Siberia

Western Siberia or West Siberia (Zapadnaya Sibir'; Батыс Сібір) is a region in North Asia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_sandpiper

Also known as Arquatella, Arquatella maritima, Calidris maritima, Deafie, Grollick, Purp Sand, Purple sandpipers, Sandpiper, Purple.

Purple sandpiper, the Glossary

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See also

Birds described in 1764

Birds of Iceland

Birds of Scandinavia

Calidris

Erolia

Taxa named by Morten Thrane Brünnich

References