The first documented record of Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus for Brazil

• Main Authors: Richard W. White, Bud Lehnhausen, Guy M. Kirwan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus is an Old World species; whi; Galindo; Indian; Kolyma; kolyma river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.536.8141; http://www.ararajuba.org.br/sbo/ararajuba/artigos/Volume144/ara144cbro1.pdf

ch breeds across northern Russia, west as far as the border with Scandinavia and east to the Kolyma River, and migrates south to winter, principally on the Indian Ocean fringe, from southern Africa to northern Australia (Hayman et al. 1986). Like many shorebirds it is capable of remarkable feats of va-grancy and has reached the New World on quite a number of occasions, principally Alaska and the offshore islands of the Aleutians and Pribilofs, from where records are apparently annual in recent years (AOU 1998; see Galindo et al. 2004 for a more recent review of Western Hemisphere records). The sole evidence for its occurrence in Brazil is a bird seen and photographed by Mazar Barnett (1997) at Porto Seguro