COMMON REDSHANK

Photographed in Singapore (Sungei Buloh Wetlands) November 2016

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SINGAPORE (Sungei Buloh Wetlands)             (82)

Common migrant to coastal mudflats, freshwater marshes and wet grassland. 28 cm. Distribution: breeds across Eurasia, including much of Europe, Central Asia, Tibetan Plateau, NE China and E Russia; winters in Africa, Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Southeast Asia and Australia.

Note: Four subspecies: craggi, eurhina, terrignotae, ussuriensis which can only be distinguished from each other confidently when inbreeding plumage.

COMMON REDSHANK

Photographed at the salt works, north-west Bali October 2016

(see   804)              COMMON REDSHANK               Tringa totanus 

INDONESIA (Bali)         (66)        

Indonesia is an important wintering ground for this species. Found in mangroves of eastern Sumatra, sometimes in flocks of 10,000; frequents ponds just behind the tidal area and mudflats along sheltered beaches. 28 cm. Breeds in temperate Eurasia; winters south reaching Indonesia; common winter visitor and locally abundant in the Sundra subregion and on Sulawesi ad Flores; less common further east.