BirdUp · Species
Terek Sandpiper
Xenus cinereus(Güldenstädt, 1775)
Least ConcernNative
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Xenus
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The Terek sandpiper is a small migratory Palearctic wader species and is the only member of the genus Xenus. It is named after the Terek River which flows into the west of the Caspian Sea, as it was first observed around this area.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Low Arctic to temperate tundra and taiga floodplains of north-central Palearctic: Finland and Ukraine east through Russia to east-central Chukotskiy Pen., north Kamchatka and south to west Amurland (east Russia)
- Non-breeding range
- AF, OR, AU, also Middle East : tropical to subtropical coastal mudflats, estuaries of Paleotropics:, south and east Africa, Malagasy region, Middle East, south and south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., New Guinea, Australia (mainly north-west, north, north-east), Philippines, south-east China and Taiwan; rarer to Bismarck Arch., Solomon Is., New Caledonia and New Zealand
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
3 photos
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