Key Facts
Family: Scolopacidae
Biometrics:
Length: 30 to 35 cm, Weight: 125 to 290 g, Wingspan: 68 to 70 cm
Range:
Common Greenshank birds breed in northern Scotland, Scandinavia, in the east from Central Asia to East Siberia and in Kamchatka in Russia. In winter, these birds migrate from western Europe to the Mediterranean from Africa, Madagascar, and from the east to the Middle East (West Asia, Egypt, and Turkey), South Asia, Indonesia, and Australia.
Habitat:
During breeding in the taiga zone, in forest clearings, moorlands with scattered trees, open bogs and marshes. In winter in a variety of wetlands, both marine and freshwater
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