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Common Sandpiper
Tringa hypoleucos
-8.73579, 115.232
Field Notes
Description:
Smallish ( 20 cm ), brown and white, short billed, restless wader. Upperparts brown, flight feathers blackish, underparts white with a brown - grey patch on side of the breast. In flight white wing bar, lack of white rump and white barred outer tail feathers are distinctive.
Habitat:
Coastal mud- flats, sandy bars to upland paddy fields, up to 1500m. Along the streams and river side.
Notes:
Very common wider in Java.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMay 5, 2013
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