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Tringa guttifer
Photo by tunpin.ong
Photo taken: Big Ash Pond, Kapar Power Station, Selangor, Malaysia

Identification

29-32 cm. Slightly upturned, bicoloured bill and yellow legs. Whitish spots and spangling on black upperside, heavily streaked head and upper neck, broad black crescent spots on lower neck and breast and darker lores, grey tail. Juveniles are browner than adults, with a pale brown breast and wing edges.


Distribution

Russia

Taxonomy

Habitat

Wet coastal meadows and coastal mudflats, and nests in sparse larch forest.

Behaviour

It builds nests of larch twigs and lichens, on wind-bent larch trunks or thick branches in sparsely wooded swamps. 4 eggs are laid and are incubated by both the male and female. Once hatched, the adults lead the chicks to coastal meadows where the broods stay near shallow ponds obscured by dense vegetation.

Diet includes sticklebacks, terrestrial invertebrates, small crustaceans, molluscs, and worms.


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