>> GENERAL >>>>>
– medium-sized wader, larger than Common Blackbird
– nocturnal migrant, local diurnal movements
– migrates singly or in small to medium, rather dense flocks
>> VISUAL ID >>>>>
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, BREED
BIF0295, 21/05/2011, Ikh Taschgai, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, M BREED
BIF0296, 21/05/2011, Ikh Taschgai, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, M BREED
BIF0297, 21/05/2011, Ikh Taschgai, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD BREED>NBREED
BIF3160, 25/08/2017, Dornod, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD BREED>NBREED
BIF3161, 25/08/2017, Dornod, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD BREED>NBREED
BIF3162, 03/09/2017, Dornod, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD BREED-> NBREED
BIF1674, 11/07/2016, Polder Pinnow, Germany, Roland Neumann
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD BREED>NBREED
BIF3163, 03/09/2017, Dornod, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD BREED and NBREED
BIF3164, 03/09/2017, Dornod, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, AD NBREED
BIF3165, 03/09/2017, Dornod, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, BREED
BIF0298, 21/05/2011, Ikh Taschgai, Mongolia, Mathias Putze
>> ACOUSTIC ID >>>>>
– most often to be heard a single slow modulated and monophonic call
– a typical Tringa-like sound: a short piercing whistle
– in spectrogram appears like a broad capital M
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, calls in flight
BIF0337, 31/08/2010, Serbitzer Becken, Germany, Patrick Franke
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus, calls in flight
BIF3166, 20/07/2018, Karrendorfer Wiesen, Germany, Patrick Franke
>> COMPARISON SPECIES >>>>>
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