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Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus

Latham, 1790

Whimbrel

TNRTNR (G5TNR) Found in 6 roadless areas NatureServe Explorer →

TNRTNRGlobal Rank

Identity

Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.793078

Element CodeABNNF07022

Record TypeSPECIES

ClassificationSubspecies

Classification StatusStandard

Name CategoryVertebrate Animal

KingdomAnimalia

PhylumCraniata

ClassAves

OrderCharadriiformes

FamilyScolopacidae

GenusNumenius

Synonyms

Numenius hudsonicusLatham, 1790

Concept Reference

American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in The Auk]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.

Taxonomic Comments

Genome-wide, mitochondrial and plumage evidence points to a deep rift between Nearctic and Palaearctic populations, advocating the elevation of North American breeding populations to species level as the "Hudsonian whimbrel" N. hudsonicus (Tan et al. 2019). This proposal was considered but not accepted by the American Ornithological Society’s Committee on Classification and Nomenclature - North and Middle America (AOS 2022). It has been accepted by the IOC World Bird List (Gill et al. 2023).

Ecology & Habitat

Other Nations (2)

United StatesNNRB,NNRN

Province	Rank	Native
Alaska	SNRB	Yes

CanadaNNRB

Province	Rank	Native
New Brunswick	S3M	Yes
Nova Scotia	S2M	Yes
Prince Edward Island	S2M	Yes

Roadless Areas (6)

Michigan (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Fibre	Hiawatha National Forest	7,432

New Hampshire (3)

Area	Forest	Acres
Carr Mountain	White Mountain National Forest	17,110
Mt. Wolf - Gordon Pond	White Mountain National Forest	11,846
Sandwich Range	White Mountain National Forest	16,797

North Carolina (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Pocosin Addition	Croatan National Forest	286

South Carolina (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Wambaw Ext	Francis Marion National Forest	527

References (4)

American Ornithological Society (AOS). Chesser, R. T., S. M. Billerman, K. J. Burns, C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, B. E. Hernández-Baños, R. A. Jiménez, A. W. Kratter, N. A. Mason, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, Jr., D. F. Stotz, and K. Winker. 2022. Sixty-third Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds. Ornithology 139:1-13.
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1998. Check-list of North American birds. Seventh edition. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. [as modified by subsequent supplements and corrections published in <i>The Auk</i>]. Also available online: http://www.aou.org/.
Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v13.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.1.
Tan, H. Z., E. Ying Xin Ng, Q. Tang, G. A. Allport, J. Jansen, P. S. Tomkovich, and F. E. Rheindt. 2019. Population genomics of two congeneric Palaearctic shorebirds reveals differential impacts of Quaternary climate oscillations across habitats types. Scientific Reports 9(1):18172.