Field signs. It is very similar to the Whooper Swan, but the fingers of membrane, the summer without the chest pestrin. From pereponchatopalogo sandpiper is a direct beak, his back without red shades, pure-white neck and chest. Legs are black. Voice - low squeaky warble "krip (Böhme et al, 1998). Distribution. North America from northwestern Alaska (area of Cape Barrow) to the east to the Atlantic coast. In the Russian nesting recorded on the coast Kolyuchinskoy Bay (Chukotka Peninsula) in 1986 (Stepanyan, 1990, 2003). References. |
