- Tringa ochropus
Description
Upper parts a dark grey brown with white speckles, underparts brilliant white, streaked breast, barred tail. Greenish legs. Smaller than Redshank, larger than Dunlin.
Habitats
Most often found on edge of pools, shores of reservoirs etc
Breeding
Nests in trees reusing nests of birds like thrush.
Food
Picks insects up from water
Voice
Loud yodelling tllu-eet weet weet
When
Generally a summer visitor to the UK, wintering in Southern Europe and Africa
Identification
Photo taken: Southern Norway
Also>>>
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.
Originally posted by Surreybirder
Bird Song
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