MARSH SANDPIPER

March 2017

(*   415)              MARSH SANDPIPER                Tringa stagnatilis

SRI LANKA                173

Found mainly in coastal areas on shallow lagoons and salt pans, also inland marshes, tanks and flooded fields. 22-25 cm. Common winter migrant to the lowlands, more in dry zone.

MARSH SANDPIPER

Photographed at a salt farm in north-west Bali October 2016

(415)              MARSH SANDPIPER                   Tringa stagnatilis  

INDONESIA (Bali)         (60)        

Found on tidal mudflats, around prawn ponds and sometimes on freshwater wetlands. 23 cm. Distribution: breeds in central and northern Asia; migrates south reaching Australia; locally common passage migrant and winter visitor in Sumatra and Kalimantan; less numerous in the east.

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