First Report of the Sanderling (Calidris alba) in Cuatro Ciénegas Valley, Coahuila, Mexico

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https://doi.org/10.28947/hrmo.2024.25.2.757

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Juvenile plumage, first record, shorebird, Río Mezquites

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The Sanderling (Calidris alba) is the most widely distributed shorebird that winters on both coasts of America, with records of vagrant individuals in the interior of the continent. On 14 September 2022, we observed and photographed two juvenile Sanderlings at a small pool adjacent to the Río Mezquites in the Cuatro Ciénegas protected area, Coahuila, Mexico. This sighting represents the first record of this species in this RAMSAR site, and increases the known inland distribution in northeastern Mexico, as well as the first documented for the state of Coahuila.

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Armando Jesús Contreras-Balderas, Independiente, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México

Professor-researcher of ornithology and wildlife (retired) from the Biological Sciences Faculty, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, at Monterrey, México. Expertise and taxonomy, ecology, conservation, and biogeography of birds from northern Mexico.

Gonzalo De León-Girón, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Baja California, México

Professor-researcher from the Sciences Faculty, Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, with expertise in ecology and conservation of birds in protected areas of northern Mexico.

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2024-09-01

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Ruiz-Campos, G., Contreras-Balderas, A. J., & De León-Girón, G. (2024). First Report of the Sanderling (Calidris alba) in Cuatro Ciénegas Valley, Coahuila, Mexico. Huitzil Revista Mexicana De Ornitologí­a, 25(2), e-671. https://doi.org/10.28947/hrmo.2024.25.2.757

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