BirdUp · Species
Common Redshank
Tringa totanus(Linnaeus, 1758)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The common redshank or simply redshank is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Subarctic to temperate coastal and inland marshes, meadows of Palearctic: Iceland to north Scandinavia and south to south Iberian Pen. and coastal Tunisia, in north from Baltics, south-west Russia, Kazakhstan, north Mongolia east to Amurland (south-east Russia), south through north Middle East, most of central Asia, Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, east to north-east China
- Non-breeding range
- South-west PAL, AF, OR : temperate to tropical inland and coastal wetlands of Africa to north Australia: south British Isles, Africa (except south), Middle East, south and south-east Asia to Malay Pen., Indonesian Arch., east China, Philippines, Taiwan and Ryukyu Is. (south Japan)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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