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Tringa nebularia

[edit] Identification

• Grey-brown upperparts
• Pale underparts
• Dark grey flecks on head and neck
• Narrow white eye ring
• Dark outer-wing
• White rump and back
• Dark to green-grey long, upward curved bill
• Yellowish-green long legs
  

Breeding birds

• Bold black chevrons on chest
• Heavily streaked and marked upper body

Photo by IanF
RSPB Saltholme, Billingham, UK, September 2010

[edit] Distribution

Africa, Coastal Asia, India, the Philippines, southern New Guinea and Australia.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Subspecies glottoides is not recognised by most authorities^[2].

[edit] Habitat

Coastal areas and inland, estuaries, mudflats, mangrove swamps, lagoons, swamps, and flooded crops.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects, worms, molluscs, small fish and crustaceans.

[edit] Breeding

The male builds the nest, a shallow depression lined with feathers and vegetation. Both sexes share the incubation and the raising of the young.

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: tyew_tyew_tyew
Song: repetitive and persistant clu_wee" delivered in high flight.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Avibase
3. Collins Bird Guide ISBN 0 00 219728
4. Birds in Backyards

• List of references

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