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Cheri L. Gratto, Fred Cooke, Geographic Variation in the Breeding Biology of the Semipalmated Sandpiper, Ornis Scandinavica (Scandinavian Journal of Ornithology), Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 233-235
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