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Spotted Redshank

Tringa erythropus(Pallas, 1764)

Least ConcernVagrant
Order
CHARADRIIFORMES
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.

  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
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  9. Sep
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  12. Dec

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