Mud runners
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Great sandpiper ( Limnodromus scolopaceus ) |
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| Wied-Neuwied , 1833 |
The sandpipers ( Limnodromus ) are a genus from the family of the snipe birds (Scolopacidae). The three species are medium-sized waders with long bills and medium-long legs.
features
The Dowitcher are about as large as the common snipe and resemble this and the bar-tailed godwit in physique, exercise, and the reddish summer plumage , but differ by the significantly shorter legs. The mud runner's beak is noticeably long and thickened at the tip and slightly curved downwards. In all clothes they have a clear stripe over the eyes. The medium-long, relatively short-looking legs are greenish. In flight, a white, oblong oval spot can be seen on the back. The wings have a white rear edge.
Way of life
The sandpipers breed in hollows of grass and moss on the ground, never far from the water and feed mainly on snails , insects and other invertebrates , which they find with their long beaks in the mud of shallow water zones, and more rarely on plants.
species
- Little sandpiper ( Limnodromus griseus ), breeding bird in three subspecies in northern Canada and Alaska . This species winters in an area from the southern USA to Brazil and can be observed extremely rarely as a stray visitor in Western Europe .
- Great sandpiper ( Limnodromus scolopaceus ), breeding bird in the tundra of North America and Eastern Siberia , the species migrates to the southern USA and Central America in winter . It is rarely, but regularly, observed in Western Europe. The Great Mud Runner was observed a total of 216 times between 1958 and 1996. Most of the observations are mostly young birds that reach Europe mainly in September and October.
- Sandpiper ( Limnodromus semipalmatus ), breeding bird in the steppes of Siberia, Mongolia and Northeast China , in winter the species migrates to Southeast Asia , Australia and New Zealand , important winter areas are the Banyuasin Delta on Sumatra and Ujung Pangkah on Java .
Small and large Mudpipes are difficult to tell apart and have long been thought of as a single species. Little is known about the third species of the genus, the rare steppe silt.
All three species are migratory birds .
supporting documents
literature
- National Geographic Society: Field Guide to the birds of North America. 4th fully rev. and updated Ed. 2002. ISBN 0-7922-6877-6
- Lars Svensson , Peter J. Grant, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström: The new cosmos bird guide. All kinds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07720-9 .
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ Hans-Günther Bauer, Einhard Bezzel and Wolfgang Fiedler (eds.): The compendium of birds in Central Europe: Everything about biology, endangerment and protection. Volume 1: Nonpasseriformes - non-sparrow birds , Aula-Verlag Wiebelsheim, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-89104-647-2 , p. 475