Gavia stellata
N Eurasia from Iceland, Faroe Is., n British
Isles and Scandinavia e across Arctic is. (Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land,
Novaya Zemlya, and Kolguyev, Vaygach, New Siberian and Wrangel is.), n
Russia and n Siberia to Chukotski Pen., Kamchatka and Commander Is., and
s to L. Baikal, Amurland and Kuril Is.; n N. America on Arctic coasts and
is. from Alaska to Greenland, and s along Pacific coast to Aleutian, Queen
Charlotte and (formerly) Vancouver is., int. to c Yukon, s Mackenzie, n
Saskatchewan,
n Manitoba, James Bay and (formerly) n shore
of L. Superior, and Atlantic coast to se Quebec (incl. Anticosti I.), Miquelon
I. and n Newfoundland (Bell I.).
Winters mainly on coasts s to n Baja Calif.,
Florida, Mediterranean, Black and Caspian seas, and se China, Taiwan and
Japan. |
