BirdUp · Species
Spotted Redshank
Tringa erythropus(Pallas, 1764)
Least ConcernVagrant
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Local
- Best seen
- Autumn
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The spotted redshank is a wader (shorebird) in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It breeds across northern Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic and migrates south to the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia for the winter. It is an occasional vagrant to Australia and North America.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Low Arctic to subarctic wooded tundra of north Palearctic: north and central Scandinavia east through inland Russia to central Chukotskiy Pen. (north-east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- South-west PAL, AF, OR : subtropical to tropical inland and coastal wetlands of Paleotropics (except Australasia): south British Isles and Canary Is. (Macaronesia, west of north Africa) to tropical Africa, Middle East, south and south-east Asia to south-east China and Taiwan
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
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- May
- Jun
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