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Nordmann's Greenshank
Tringa guttifer(Nordmann, 1835)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
Nordmann's greenshank or the spotted greenshank is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. They are considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List and are typically found within the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Coastal larch forest of north-east Palearctic: west and south coastal Sea of Okhotsk, Tatar Strait (west of Sakhalin) and Sakhalin (east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- Coastal mudflats and saltpans of tropical south south-east Asia: south-east Bangladesh, south Myanmar, south Thailand, Malay Pen., Sumatra and south-west Borneo
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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