Spotted Redshank

Latin Name: 
Tringa erythropus
Size: 
33cm
Description: 

A long-necked and long-billed wader with a slim white back stripe and no wing bars and long red legs. Nonbreeding plumage is lighter grey above with fine black speckles. Head and neck paler with clear but short white supercilia. Underparts white. Long bill dark with red lower mandible and slight downcurve at tip. In breeding plumage, strikingly black on head, neck and underparts and white-spotted dark grey upperparts. Sexes alike.

Habitat: 
Inhabits marshes, jheels and rivers.
Distribution: 
Fairly common winter visitor throughout lowlands. Scarce on coast and in the Northeast.
Call: 
Call Description: 
Noisy. An explosive chew it.
National Status: