Spotted Greenshank

The Spotted Greenshank or Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders.

The Spotted Greenshank is classified as Endangered (EN), considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Spotted Greenshank or Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is a medium-sized sandpiper, 29-32 cm long, with a slightly upturned, bicoloured bill and shortish yellow legs. Breeding adults are boldly marked, with whitish spots and spangling on blackish upperside, heavily streaked head and upper neck, broad blackish crescentic spots on lower neck and breast and darker lores. More

The Spotted Greenshank, a rare and endangered species, was not available for molecular analyses. It is fairly aberrant and was formerly placed in the monotypic (one single species) genus Pseudototanus. It appears closest overall to the semipalmata-flavipes and the stagnatilis-totanus-glareola groups, though it also has some similarities to the Greater Yellowlegs and Common Greenshank. More

Sites of international importance for Spotted Greenshank during northward migration Site Country Count Ref 1 Namyang Man South Korea 57 1 2 Yancheng NNR China 35 2 3 Dong Sha China 16 3 More

Nordmann's Greenshank (or Spotted Greenshank, Tringa guttifer) on the mud flats at Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve in the north-west of Singapore. To someone like me, new to bird watching this didn't sound like very exciting news; not, at least, until I found out that this was the first time the species had been spotted in Singapore for 27 years. More