Showing posts with label Tringa glareola. Show all posts
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Monday, June 5, 2017

WOOD SANDPIPER

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017
(*  492)                 WOOD SANDPIPER                 Tringa glareola

MALAYSIA               44

Very common in freshwater marshes, wet rice fields and mangroves, and where swamp forest has been newly cleared. 23 cm. Non-breeding migrant through Peninsula Malaysia.



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.