Thursday, May 2, 2019

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER

Photographed at Miranda, North Island, New Zealand, April, 2019

(*  255)                  SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER                   Calidris acuminata

NEW ZEALAND                 118

Uncommon Arctic migrant. Breeds in Siberia, migrates tio Australasia. In New Zealand favours low-growing salt marsh of estuaries and open marsh-turf flats of coastal lakes, mainly at Kaimaumau, Firth of Thames, Ahuriri and Manawatu estuaries, Lake Wairarapa and Ellesmere, and Awarua Bay.






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