Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Whimbrel

Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Order - Charadriiformes
Family - Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Whimbrel

Numenius phaeopus

中杓鹬 (zhōng sháo-yù)

Malay : Kendi Gajah

Japanese : チュウシャクシギ (chū shaku-shigi)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 中杓鷸 / 中杓鴫

Size : 40–46 cm; Wingspan 76–89 cm

Male 268–550 g, Female 315–600 g

Subspecies and Distribution

Numenius phaeopus islandicus (C. L. Brehm, 1831)
– Iceland S to N Scotland, with small numbers in NE Greenland; winters W Africa.
Numenius phaeopus phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Eurasian Whimbrel
– Scandinavia E to R Yenisey; winters from extreme SW Europe and Africa through Middle East to W India, Sri Lanka and Andaman and Nicobar Is.
Numenius phaeopus alboaxillaris (Lowe, 1921)– steppes N of Caspian Sea; winters on islands and coasts of W Indian Ocean.
Numenius phaeopus rogachevae (Tomkovich, 2008)
– C Siberia; wintering grounds uncertain, presumably around Indian Ocean shores.
Numenius phaeopus variegatus (Scopoli, 1786)
– NE Siberia from Verkhoyansk Mts to basins of R Kolyma and R Anadyr; winters from E India to Taiwan, and S through Philippines and Indonesia to Australasia.
Numenius phaeopus rufiventris (Vigors, 1829)
– W, C & N Alaska and NW Canada (W Yukon and NW Mackenzie); winters on coasts from W USA S to South America.
Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus (Latham, 1790) – American Whimbrel
– W & S shores of Hudson Bay (NE Manitoba and N Ontario), in C Canada; winters
on coasts from S USA and Caribbean to S South America.