NORDMANN’S GREENSHANK

Photographed in Cairns, Queensland, January 2021

1310               NORDMANN'S GREENSHANK                    Tringa guttifer

AUSTRALIA                    795

Also known as Spotted Greenshank. Breeds in eastern Russia along south-west and northern coast of Sea of Okhotsk and on Sakhalin Island. Non-breeding range not fully understood but recorded in South Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia, as well as Japan, North Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia. Endangered species with population estimated at between 500-1000 birds.