Key Facts
Family: Scolopacidae
Biometrics:
Length: 19 to 21 cm, Weight: 33 to 84 g, Wingspan: 38 to 41 cm
Range:
Breed in Europe, East across Central Asia to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Japan. Winter from West Europe and Africa though Middle East, and South and South-east Asia to Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia
Habitat:
Breed along flowing rivers, streams mostly in upland areas, on margins with pebbles, sand or rocks, dry meadows close to ponds and lakes, sheltered coastal shores. Outside breeding season, a variety of both freshwater and saltwater habitats including estuaries, salt-marshes, inland wetlands, pools, seacoasts, grassland and occasionally in urban or forested areas
Clicked at: Bhandup Pumping Station, Mumbai
