Saturday, February 7, 2015

WOOD SANDPIPER

photographed at Dandenong Valley Wetlands, February 2015
492               WOOD SANDPIPER          Tringa glareola

AUSTRALIA          (333)

20-23 cm. Ranges all over mainland Australia, sparse in inland, rarely found in Tasmania; breeds in n. Eurasia to ne. Siberia, migrates to Australia in summer. Found ion muddy margins of wetlands, tidal mangroves; margins of tidal flats; saltmarshes, sewerage ponds.





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