Sunday, January 22, 2017

BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER

Photographed at Lake Murdeduke, Victoria, January 2017

966                  BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER                    Tryngites subruficollis

AUSTRALIA                 698

Found in short grasslands, dry ground, margins of freshwater or saline wetlands; occasionally tidal mudflats. 18-21 cm. breeds in Arctic North America and far ne. Siberia; winters South America; vagrant Europe, Asia. Mostly summer vagrant se and s Aust and Tas, two WA.