The most elegant of the smaller species, and the least often seen in UK waters,
this species occasionally turns up at an inland site, this being the case with both shown here. The adult was about as far as
it could be from the sea, on a reservoir in Oxfordshire, the juvenile on a Leeds golf course. Breeding is circumpolar on the Arctic tundra, it may be the most northerly breeding species
in the world, and migration is to subantarctic regions. Not all birds go that far south, juveniles often winter at a much higher latitude such as the Red Sea.
Taken Leeds G.C. Sept.1989 and Farmoor Reservoir Oxon.Sept.1996
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