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Black Turnstone Range Map

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Range Map for Black Turnstone

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Migration

Medium-distance migrant.

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Species in This Family

Sandpipers and Allies(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae)

Upland Sandpiper

Long-billed Curlew

Hudsonian Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Black Turnstone

Stilt Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher

Long-billed Dowitcher

American Woodcock

Wilson's Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Wandering Tattler

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

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