Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Arenaria interpres
Vuelve piedras, Ruddy Turnstone
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Charadriidae
Genus
Arenaria
Species
interpres
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Arenaria interpres interpres (Linnaeus, 1758); Strepsilas interpres
Origin: Migrant
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Harris (1973) described the turnstones as a very common migrant, always present but most common from August to March. There are two skin specimens in the MECCD.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
- Hickin, N. (1979) Animal life of the Galapagos. Ferundune Books, Faringdon, U.K., 236 pp.
- Meyer De Schauensee, R.M. (1966) The Species of Birds of South America and their Distribution. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
- Salvin, O. (1876) On the avifauna of the Galápagos Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 9: 447-510.
- Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Arenaria interpres", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5034. Accessed 11 June 2026.