Breeding.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Breeds from June to August on marshy arctic tundra, mainly coastal, in Siberia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Svalbard.\u00a0 Often in loose colonies, but also in scattered, solitary pairs.<\/p>

The bulk of the population apparently breeds in the Canadian Archipelago, scattered nearly throughout, on most of the major islands and adjacent islets, including: Banks, Victoria, Prince of Wales, Bathurst, Cornwallis, Axel Heiberg, Ellesmere, Baffin, Bylot, Prince Charles, Southampton, and Coats Islands, among others.\u00a0 Also on the mainland of the Northwest Territories from the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula east through the Boothia Peninsula and south to the northern shores of Hudson Bay.<\/p>

In Siberia, along coasts of the Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian Seas, from the Taimyr Peninsula east to the Chukotsk Peninsula, mainly around the central and eastern river deltas, and on Wrangell and the New Siberian Islands.<\/p>

In Alaska, from the Alaska Peninsula north along Bering Sea coasts, including the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and Seward Peninsula, and east along the North Slope.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t