Profile
In flight
Cranes & Waders
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
Long-legged and quiet across the mudflats, called by its triple ringing whistle. A flyway traveller between Eurasian breeding bogs and tropical Asian winters.
- Population
- approximately 440,000 to 1,500,000 mature individuals
- Habitat
- estuaries, coastal mudflats, brackish lagoons, lake shores, marshes
- Diet
- small fish, crustaceans, insects, worms, tadpoles
- Size
- 0.32 m
- Wingspan
- 0.68 m
