Wednesday, April 22, 2015

GREY-TAILED TATTLER

Photographed at Monkey Mia, Western Australia April 2015
579          GREY-TAILED TATTLER           Heteroscelus brevipes

Australia          (422)

24-27 cm. Found on estuaries, tidal mudflats, mangroves; wave-washed rocks and reefs; shallow river-margins, coastal or inland. Breeds in c and e Siberia; regular summer visitor to coastal n. Aust. from about Shark Bay (WA) to Sydney; less common on s. coast but regular Corner Inlet and Westernport (Vic). Casual inland, uncommon in Tas.







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