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==Description==
 
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Upper parts a dark grey brown with white speckles, underparts brilliant white, streaked breast, barred tail. Greenish legs. Smaller than Redshank, larger than Dunlin.<br>
 
  
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==Habitats==
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==Identification==
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Upper parts a dark grey brown with white speckles, underparts brilliant white, streaked breast, barred tail. Greenish legs. Smaller than Redshank, larger than Dunlin
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Most often found on edge of pools, shores of reservoirs etc<br>
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==Distribution==
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Generally a summer visitor to the UK, wintering in Southern Europe and Africa
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==Breeding==
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==Taxonomy==
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Kingdom: Animalia <br>
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Phylum: Chordata<br>
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Class: Aves<br>
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Order: Charadriiformes<br>
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Family: Scolopacidae<br>
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Genus: Tringa<br>
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Species: T. ochropus
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==Habitat==
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Most often found on edge of pools, shores of reservoirs etc
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==Behaviour==
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Picks insects up from water
 
Nests in trees reusing nests of birds like thrush.<br>  
 
Nests in trees reusing nests of birds like thrush.<br>  
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==Food==
 
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Picks insects up from water<br>
 
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==Voice==
 
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Loud yodelling tllu-eet weet weet<br>
 
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==When==
 
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<br>Generally a summer visitor to the UK, wintering in Southern Europe and Africa
 
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==Identification==
 
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Photo taken: Southern Norway
 
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==Also>>>==
 
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You sometimes flush a green sand from a ditch or by a pond, when it flies off with an erratic, low flight. The most obvious feature is the white tail band contrasting strongly with the dark upperparts. The alarm call is not quite the same as the call described above, more of a creet-creet-creet-creet. When wading, the bird often bobs its tail in the manner of a common sand. But there is no white 'wedge' in front of the wing as there is in that species. It is darker above than common sand and doesn't fly with the wings held below the horizontal as CS does.
 
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''Originally posted by '''Surreybirder'''''
 
 
==Bird Song==
 
==Bird Song==
 
<flashmp3>Tringa ochropus (song).mp3</flashmp3><br />
 
<flashmp3>Tringa ochropus (song).mp3</flashmp3><br />

Revision as of 23:52, 27 August 2007

Tringa ochropus
Photo by Northcape
Photographed: Southern Norway

Identification

Upper parts a dark grey brown with white speckles, underparts brilliant white, streaked breast, barred tail. Greenish legs. Smaller than Redshank, larger than Dunlin

Distribution

Generally a summer visitor to the UK, wintering in Southern Europe and Africa

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
Species: T. ochropus

Habitat

Most often found on edge of pools, shores of reservoirs etc

Behaviour

Picks insects up from water Nests in trees reusing nests of birds like thrush.

Bird Song

<flashmp3>Tringa ochropus (song).mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program

External Links

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