A global population redistribution in a migrant shorebird detected with continent-wide qualitative breeding survey data

• Published in: Diversity and Distributions
• Main Authors: Rakhimberdiev, E., Verkuil, Y.I., Saveliev, A.A., Vaisanen, R.A., Karagicheva, J., Soloviev, M.Y., Tomkovich, P.S., Piersma, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus; 1758) [ruff]; Scolopacidae; Arctic; Gam; Philomachus pugnax; Ruff; Siberia
• Online Access: http://imis.nioz.nl/imis.php?module=ref&refid=231397

Aim Over the last two decades, thousands of northward migrating ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) have disappeared from western European staging sites. These migratory ruffs were partly temperate breeding birds, but most individuals head towards the Eurasian Arctic tundras where 95% of the global populatio...