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What the Spotted Redshank sounds like
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This is a large wader (shorebird), measuring 29–31 cm (11–12 in) long, with a wingspan of 61–67 cm (24–26 in) and a weight ranging from 121 to 205 g (4.3 to 7.2 oz). It is black in breeding plumage, and very pale in winter. It has a red legs and bill, and shows a white oval on the back in flight. Juveniles are grey-brown finely speckled white above, and have pale, finely barred underparts. Adults moult completely between July and October. In spring, the body plumage is moulted between March and May. Juveniles have a partial moult between August and February.
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When to see the Spotted Redshank
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Spotted Redshank
The map shades 105 countries with regular records, and 17 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Canada, Luxembourg, Australia, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Rwanda, Guadeloupe, Turkmenistan, Burundi, Mali, Togo, Barbados, Indonesia, Singapore, Iceland.
About the Spotted Redshank
The spotted redshank is a wader (shorebird) in the large bird family Scolopacidae. It breeds across northern Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic and migrates south to the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa, and tropical Asia for the winter. It is an occasional vagrant to Australia and North America.
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Easily confused with
Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilisThe marsh sandpiper resembles a small elegant greenshank, with a long fine bill and very long yellowish legs.
Wandering TattlerTringa incanaThe wandering tattler was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.
Grey-tailed TattlerTringa brevipesThe grey-tailed tattler is closely related to its North American counterpart, the wandering tattler (T. incana) and is difficult to distinguish from that species.
Side by side: Marsh Sandpiper vs Spotted Redshank · Spotted Redshank vs Wandering Tattler · Grey-tailed Tattler vs Spotted Redshank
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