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| Photographed Lake Tutchewop, Victoria, November 2014 |
414 CURLEW SANDPIPER Calidris ferruginea
Australia (288)
20-22 cm. Found on tidal mudflats, salt marsh, saltfields, brackish or saline wetlands, sewerage ponds. Breeds ne Siberia, migrates to Africa, s and se Asia, Indonesia, NZ, PNG and widespread to Australia, mainly coastal but many inland, all of Australia except driest inland central e WA.
