Spotted redshank

It is 29-33 cm long. It is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter. It has a red legs and bill, and shows a white oval on the back in flight. Juveniles are grey-brown finely speckled white above, and have pale, finely barred underparts. It nests on open boggy taiga, laying four eggs in a ground scrape. The call is a creaking whistle teu-it , the alarm call a kyip-kyip-kyip. Like most waders, it feeds on small invertebrates.

The Spotted redshank is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is an Arctic bird, breeding across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia. It is a migratory species, wintering around the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia, usually on fresh or brackish water. It is an occasional vagrant in Australia and North America. In Non-breeding plumage at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. More

Spotted Redshank close to the hide at Redwell Marsh NOA on 18/8/08. Part of a something of a wader-fest here, with a Wood Sandpiper, 3 juvenile Little-ringed Plovers, 2 Green Sandpipers and 2 Common Sandpipers also present, with 7 Greenshanks west overhead. Incredibly the 22nd species of wader this year for this relatively small set of lagoons. Photos by Connor D. Rand. More

Spotted Redshank: Large sandpiper with mostly black body except for white rump, white spots on wings and barred tail. Bill is red with black tip. Legs and feet are red. Sexes are similar. Winter adult has pale gray-brown upperparts, dark eyestripe, and white rump and underparts. Juvenile resembles winter adult but is darker. Range and Habitat Spotted Redshank: Breeds in northern Eurasia. Spends winters from Mediterranean region to eastern China south to equatorial Africa and southeast Asia. More

The Spotted Redshank is replaced as a breeding bird further south by the Common Redshank, which has a shorter bill and legs, and is brown and white above with some dark patterning below, becoming somewhat lighter-toned in winter. Taxonomically, it forms a close-knit group with the Greater Yellowlegs and the Greenshank, which among them show all the basic leg and foot colours of the shanks, demonstrating that this character is paraphyletic (Pereira & Baker, 2005). More

Spotted RedshankThe Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It forms a close-knit group with the Greater Yellowlegs and the Greenshank, which among them show all the basic leg and foot colors of the shanks, demonstrating that this character is paraphyletic* (Pereira & Baker, 2005). These three species are the largest shanks apart from the Willet, which is altogether more robustly built. More

The Spotted Redshank in its spotted summer plumage is entirely sooty black with white spots throughout the summer. In winter plumage they look slimmer, paler and greyer than Common Redshanks, with longer legs and longer, finer beaks. The obvious white stripe from bill to eye is another good feature. In flight they lack the white wing bars of a Common Redshank and their tails are more heavily barred. This makes their white rump look more like an oval patch on the lower back. More

Spotted redshank are energetic feeders, often up to their flanks in water and at times swimming, immersing head and neck completely and up-ending like ducks. One and then another regularly adopted a side-to-side scything movement in the manner of an avocet. Later, the birds formed a tight group in a rapidly emptying creek before all began wading in one direction, almost touching, before turning together and then wading back again, rapidly feeding with traditional sideways movements. More

Aspects of the topic spotted redshank are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References * description (in redshank (bird group)) ...Middle East, and temperate Asia (to 4,500 metres, about 15,000 feet, in the Himalayas), and it winters from Africa to the Philippines. The slightly larger spotted redshank (T. More

Spotted Redshanks search for prey by picking and poking, sometimes they make a short sprint. Spotted Redshanks may swim and sometimes they dive head and neck totally under water. Landing on water is possible for them. In case of raptor attacks, Spotted Redshanks may also dive in order to abscond. A behavior, which in most cases is successful. The flat breeding hollow is located on the open ground. Sometimes it is padded with leafs and feathers. More

In Scotland the Spotted Redshank is usually an uncommon passage migrant although for the past few years a bird has wintered in the River Clyde at Newshot Island, Erskine or at Dumbarton. A bird was found in an unlikely location of a Glasgow inner city park at Robroyston within half a mile of a motorway and a giant Asda supermarket. By coincidence, within a week of photographing the Robroyston bird I stumbled over another one at Cameron Reservoir near St Andrews in Fife. More

The spotted redshank is a medium sized elegant wading bird, slightly larger than a redshank. In summer plumage the adults are almost entirely black, save for some white `spotting' on the wings, a white `wedge' on the back showing clearly in flight, and a barred tail. In winter they have a grey back, and paler under parts, with a more prominent eye stripe than a redshank and lacking a redshank's white wing bars. More

The Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) in non-breeding plumage captured south west of Bangkok at the More

The Spotted Redshanks is 29-33 cm long. It is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter. It has a red legs and bill, and shows a white oval on the back in flight. Juveniles are brown above and have uniformly barred underparts. The Spotted Redshank is replaced as a breeding bird further south by the Common Redshank, which has a shorter bill and legs, and is brown above and white with some dark patterning below, becoming somewhat lighter-toned in winter. More

The Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus is a wader in the large bird family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. More

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