Tuesday, August 30, 2016

COMMON REDSHANK

Photographed at Broome Bird Observatory, August 2016
804              COMMON REDSHANK            Tringa totanus

Australia         (648)

Found on tidal sandbars and mudflats; mangroves; freshwater swamps and lagoons; salt fields. Breeds from British Isles to e. Asia: migrates to Africa, s. and se. Asia, Indonesia region. Uncommon but perhaps regular, mostly summer migrant to coastal n. Aust; Some overwinter.