Spotted Redshank

Tringa erythropus (Pallas, 1764)

Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus, breeds in the low Arctic and subarctic wooded tundra of the northern Palearctic, from northern and central Scandinavia east through inland Russia to the Chukotskiy Peninsula. Outside the breeding season it moves to inland and coastal wetlands across the Paleotropics, reaching the southern British Isles, the Canary Islands, tropical Africa, the Middle East, southern and south-eastern Asia, south-eastern China and Taiwan. It is a wader in the sandpiper and snipe family, and was described by Pallas in 1764.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

Palearctic: low Arctic to subarctic wooded tundra of n Palearctic: n, c Scandinavia e through inland Russia to c Chukotskiy Pen. (ne Siberia)

Nonbreeding range

sw PAL, AF, OR : subtropical to tropical inland and coastal wetlands of Paleotropics (except Australasia): s British Isles and Canary Is. (Macaronesia, w of n Africa) to tropical Africa, Middle East, s, se Asia to se China and Taiwan