Thursday, November 27, 2014

MARSH SANDPIPER

Photographed Lake Cargelligo, NSW, November 2014
415           MARSH SANDPIPER            Tringa stagnatilis

Australia        (289)

Also known as Little Greenshanks. Found in salt, brackish or freshwater wetlands, sewerage ponds, commercial salt fields, bore drains, tidal mudflats, mangroves, estuaries. Breeds Austria to Northern Mongolia, migrates to Africa, India, se Asia, Indonesia, NZ, regular summer visitor to all Australia, mostly coastal but found inland e. half of Australia. 




Photographed Lake Cargellico, November 2014.








Photographed Lake Tutchewop, Victoria, November 2014








































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