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

Sunday, May 28, 2017

COMMON REDSHANK

Subspecies eurhina, March 2017
(*  804)                COMMON REDSHANK                   Tringa totanus

SRI LANKA            143

Found in tidal creeks, salt-pans, paddy fields and mangroves. 27-29 cm. Common winter migrant to lowlands, more in dry zone.



Tuesday, August 30, 2016

COMMON REDSHANK

Photographed at Broome Bird Observatory, August 2016
804              COMMON REDSHANK            Tringa totanus

Australia         (648)

Found on tidal sandbars and mudflats; mangroves; freshwater swamps and lagoons; salt fields. Breeds from British Isles to e. Asia: migrates to Africa, s. and se. Asia, Indonesia region. Uncommon but perhaps regular, mostly summer migrant to coastal n. Aust; Some overwinter.