Birds

Rock Ptarmigan

The Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is found in arctic and subarctic Eurasia and North America including Greenland. There are a number of isolated mountain populations at lower latitudes in Scotland, the Pyrenees, Alps and Bulgaria, the Urals, Pamir, Altai, and Japan. During the last Ice Age this species was much more widespread throughout Europe. Most of the world population of ptarmigans are resident birds.

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Grey-headed lapwing

The grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus) is a lapwing species which breeds in northeast China and Japan. The mainland population winters in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia. The Japanese population winters, at least partially, in southern Honshū.

Pintail

The Pintail (Anas acuta) is widespread and breeds in the northern parts of Europe, Asia and North America. It is a typical migratory bird and is wintering south of its breeding distribution to the equator.

Merganser

The Merganser (Mergus merganser) breeds in northern Europe from Iceland and Britain eastwards across Scandinavia and the Baltics, Central Asia east to Japan. The bird also breeds in the northernmost parts of North America.

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Gadwall

The Gadwall (Anas strepera) breeds in Europe, Asia and Central America. A small population also breeds in Morocco in northwestern Africa. In Europe it breeds locally on the Iberian Peninsula, the UK, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe and south to the Middle East. From European Russia and the East, it has a more continuous distribution in a belt across central parts of Asia as far east as Northeast China and Primorje Region, but also locally in eastern Hokkaido in Japan and Kamchatka. In North America the breeding range extends from the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Dakota, southern Kansas, and west to California, and along Canada's Pacific coast and the southern coastal areas of Alaska. The distribution area in eastern North America seems to increase. Most of the northern populations are migratory birds and the Palearctic population migrate south in winter to the Mediterranean, North and East Africa and as far south as Ethiopia and Eritrea, India, southern Japan and Southeast Asia. The North American population winters in coastal areas in Alaska, and south to Central America and east to Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and further south into Central America and the Bahamas in the Caribbean.

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Willow Grouse

The Willow Grouse or Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) has a circumpolar distribution in the northern areas of the Holarctic, in Europe, Asia and North America. The Willow Grouse is a resident bird or short migrant throughout it's range, but in winter the bird often stay at lower levels in protected environments.

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Northern Shoveler

The Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) nest in the northern regions of Europe and Asia, and across most of North America. The majority of the population are migratory birds.

Northern Shoveler

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Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) breed in northern Eurasia and northeastern Canada. Most are migratory birds and winters in southern Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, in southwest Asia and Japan.

Ringed Plover

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