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coastal Antarctica, especially Ross Sea; also South Shetland and South Orkney is. (off Antarctic Pen.)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
to n offshore waters and North Indian Ocean: mostly clockwise to Japanese and Korean waters (w North Pacific) and Gulf Stream of e USA (w North Atlantic), then sw Canada to n Baja California (nw Mexico; e North Pacific) and nw Africa (e North Atlantic)
Antarctica,Argentina,Australia,Barbados,Brazil,Canada,Chile,Comoros,Costa Rica,Ecuador - mainland, India - mainland,Indonesia,Japan,Kenya,Kiribati,Mexico,Mozambique,Namibia,Panama,Peru, Russia,Somalia,Spain,Sri Lanka,Trinidad and Tobago,United States - mainland,Uruguay,
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)