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                      | Image Description: | 
                      Ruff | 
                     
                     
                      | Image notes:  | 
                      Ruff grow long feathers on their necks in April and shed them in June.  | 
                     
                     
                      | Species in Image:  | 
                      Ruff | 
                     
                     
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                      | Old Haa Image Reference Number: | 
                      btc00721 | 
                     
                   
 
 
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| Common Name | 
Ruff | 
 
 
| Latin Name | 
Philomachus pugnax | 
 
 
| Latin Group Name | 
Charadriiformes | 
 
 
| Latin Family Name | 
Scolopacidae | 
 
 
| Common Family Name | 
Sandpipers, Snipes, Godwits, Curlews & Phalaropes | 
 
 
| Description | 
Fairly common passage migrant.  The first autumn migrants usually arrive from mid-July onwards.  Earliest spring record 20 March, Whalsay 1997 | 
 
 
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