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DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North America, Central America, the West Indies, and 

 northern South America. Accidental in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Breeding range. — North to Alaska (Shumagin Islands, Bethel, 

 St. Michael, Nome, Kowak River, Cape Smith, and Fort Yukon) ; 

 Mackenzie (La Pierre House, Fort Anderson, Dease River, and Fort 

 Smith) ; northeastern Manitoba (Fort Churchill) ; northern Ontario 

 (Cape Henrietta Maria) ; Ungava (Fort George and Great Whale 

 River) ; Labrador (Nain) ; and Newfoundland (Halls Bay, Grand 

 Lake, and St. Johns). East to Labrador (Nain); Newfoundland 

 (St. Johns) ; eastern Quebec (Magdalen Islands) ; Nova Scotia (Bad- 

 deck and Halifax) ; Maine (Calais and Waldo County) ; Massachu- 

 setts (Salem and Brookline) ; Connecticut (Portland) ; New York 

 (Croton Falls) ; New Jersey (Newfoundland, Norristown, Trenton) ; 

 and southeastern Pennsylvania (Mill Grove). South to southeastern 

 Pennsylvania (Mill Grove) ; northwestern Pennsylvania (Mead- 

 ville) ; northern Ohio (Fremont) ; northern Indiana (Miami, Eng- 

 lish Lake, and Cedar Lake) ; northern Illinois (Hinsdale and Win- 

 nebago) ; Iowa (Sabula, Grinnell, and Boone) ; Colorado (Estes 

 Park, Barr, San Luis Lake, and Silverton) ; Utah (Parleys Park 

 and Fairfield) ; southwestern Idaho (Nampa) ; and northern Cali- 

 fornia (Sierra Valley and Shasta Valley). West to northern Cali- 

 fornia (Shasta Valley) ; Oregon (Fort Klamath, Corvallis, and 

 Salem) ; Washington (Yakima and Olympia) ; British Columbia 

 (Chilliwack, Vancouver, and Metlakatla) ; and Alaska (Sitka, Ko- 

 diak, Nushagak, and Shumagin Islands). 



Wilson's snipe also have been detected in summer north to Chimo, 

 Ungava, Hopedale, Labrador, and Sandwich Bay, Quebec, and have 

 been found lingering (probably non-breeders) south to Chloride, 

 New Mexico, and Corpus Christi and San Angelo, Texas, while there 

 is one breeding record for northern Los Angeles County, California 

 (Mailliard, 1914). 



Winter range. — The Wilson snipe winters regularly north to 

 Washington (Tacoma) ; British Columbia (Chilliwack and Okana- 

 gan Landing) ; Wyoming ( Yellowstone Park) ; Colorado (El 

 Paso County) ; southern Arizona (Tucson and Fort Huachuca) ; 

 southern New Mexico (Rio Mimbres) ; Texas (Austin, Kerrville, 

 and Bonham) ; Oklahoma (Caddo) ; Arkansas ( Fayette ville and 

 Stuttgart) ; Alabama (Coosada and Montgomery County) ; central 

 North Carolina (Raleigh) ; and southeastern Virginia (Virginia 

 Beach); eastern North Carolina (Pea Islands); Bermuda; South 

 Carolina (Charleston) ; Georgia (Savannah and Blackbeard Is- 

 land) ; Florida (Canaveral, Orlando, Kissimmee, and Royal Palm 



