Showing posts with label Tringa nebularia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tringa nebularia. Show all posts

Monday, May 1, 2017

COMMON GREENSHANK

Photographed March 2017
(*  417)                    COMMON GREENSHANK                Tringa nebularia

SRI LANKA                    60

Found in almost all types of wetlands. 30-34 cm. Rather common winter migrant to the lowlands, more in dry zone.



Friday, November 28, 2014

COMMON GREENSHANK


417         COMMON GREENSHANK                Tringa nebularia

Australia          (291)

30-34 cm. Found on mudflats, estuaries, salt marshes, margins of lakes, wetlands, claypans, fresh and saline, commercial salt fields, sewerage ponds. Breeds from Scotland to s. and ne. Siberia, winters s. Europe, Africa, s. and se. Asia to PNG, Aust and NZ; in Australia mostly on coast of Tasmania and mainland but also inland except to driest central WA, sw NT, nw SA.

Darwin January 2024