COMMON GREENSHANK

417         COMMON GREENSHANK                Tringa nebularia

Australia          (291)

30-34 cm. Found on mudflats, estuaries, salt marshes, margins of lakes, wetlands, claypans, fresh and saline, commercial salt fields, sewerage ponds. Breeds from Scotland to s. and ne. Siberia, winters s. Europe, Africa, s. and se. Asia to PNG, Aust and NZ; in Australia mostly on coast of Tasmania and mainland but also inland except to driest central WA, sw NT, nw SA.

Darwin January 2024

EASTERN CURLEW

416          EASTERN CURLEW           Numenius madagascariensis

Australia         (290)

Also known as Australian, Far Eastern and Sea Curlew. 60-65 cm. Range: breeds ne Asia, summer visitor to coasts of Australia, including Tasmania, seldom inland. Found in estuaries, tidal mudflats, sand spits, salt marshes, mangroves, and sometimes fresh or brackish lakes, bare grassland, near water.