MARSH SANDPIPER

Photographed Lake Cargelligo, NSW, November 2014

415           MARSH SANDPIPER            Tringa stagnatilis

Australia        (289)

Also known as Little Greenshanks. Found in salt, brackish or freshwater wetlands, sewerage ponds, commercial salt fields, bore drains, tidal mudflats, mangroves, estuaries. Breeds Austria to Northern Mongolia, migrates to Africa, India, se Asia, Indonesia, NZ, regular summer visitor to all Australia, mostly coastal but found inland e. half of Australia. 

Photographed Lake Cargellico, November 2014.

Photographed Lake Tutchewop, Victoria, November 2014

CURLEW SANDPIPER

Photographed Lake Tutchewop, Victoria, November 2014

414         CURLEW SANDPIPER            Calidris ferruginea

Australia          (288)

20-22 cm. Found on tidal mudflats, salt marsh, saltfields, brackish or saline wetlands, sewerage ponds. Breeds ne Siberia, migrates to Africa, s and se Asia, Indonesia, NZ, PNG and widespread to Australia, mainly coastal but many inland, all of Australia except driest inland central e WA.

WHITE-WINGED FAIRY-WREN

413        WHITE-WINGED FAIRY-WREN            Malurus leucopterus

Australia            (287)

Also known as Black-and-white Fairy-wren, Blue-and-white Fairy-wren, White-backed Fairy-wren. The male has either blue or black body. 11.5-13 cm. Found in low heath, scrub, saltbush, tall grasses, low dense shrubs, tangled clumps on open, often treeless arid wastes, saltbush, holy-poly, spinifex, margins of salt lakes. Range across central Australia but not around edges from Broome, across northland down east, around to Adelaide. 

Photographed at Deniliquin, NSW February 2015

BAILLON'S CRAKE

Photographed at Fiveborough Swamp, Leeton, November 2014

412           BAILLON'S CRAKE              Porzana pusilla

Australia           (286)

Range: all of tasmania and mainland Australia except driest se and e WA, w half of SA and bottom 2/3 NT. Found in vegetated freshwater wetlands, waterside trees and shrubs. 15-16 cm.

BLACK-TAILED NATIVE HEN

Photographed at Fiveborough Swamp, Leeton, November 2014

411          BLACK-TAILED NATIVE-HEN            Gallinula ventralis

Australia              (285)

Also known as Barcoo Bantam. 30-36 cm. habitat includes open margins of wetland, lakes, rivers, wet claypans, especially in lignum; open woodland; pastures, oops and gardens. Range is most of Australian mainland except across the north, down the east coast of NSW and Victoria, and the dry se of WA,w of SA, sw of NT.