SOLITUDE

COMMON SANDPIPER

small, short-legged sandpiper, with pale eye-ring; greenish-brown upperparts, white underparts with dark lateral breast patches; dark brown streaks and marks on upperparts; in flight, shows dark rump and white wingbar the bird mainly prefers margins of water bodies, mostly riverbanks, preferably with pebbles, sand or rocks, and patches of dry meadows; also small ponds, lakeshores sheltered sea coasts, etc It’s a Migratory bird, with birds perhaps capable of single flights of up to 4000 km in spring. The Diet of the bird mainly includes adult and larval insects (e.g. beetles, Diptera), spiders, crustaceans and annelids, sometimes frogs, tadpoles, or small fish; occasionally plant material. Lays egg mainly May–Jun, but starts late Apr in NW Europe, and the species is not globally threatened (Least Concern).

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