Key Facts
Family: Scolopacidae
Biometrics:
Length: 27 to 29 cm, Weight: 85 to 155 g, Wingspan: 59 to 66 cm
Range:
The common Redshank birds breed in temperate Eurasia. They winter south of the Mediterranean coast, Atlantic European coasts, tropical Africa, and South Asia
Habitat:
These birds are mainly found in rocky, muddy or sandy beaches, open wetlands, saltwater or freshwater lakes, coastal areas and often in inland wetlands and floodplains, during breeding in beaches, inland marshes, salty and grassy marshes, moist grasslands
Clicked at: Goa, during a boat ride in the Zuari river