Marsh Sandpiper
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The Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is a small bird, wader. In spite of its small size is a great migratory. It winters in the southern hemisphere, sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian sub-continent, Indonesia, South East Asia and tropical Australia. In Lampedusa in the spring is of passage along the route to the north to the nesting areas.
These are, on the contrary, in the north of the world, from the Black Sea, Poland, Finland, Ukraine through the central and northern areas of the former Soviet Union, Kazakhistan to the north and to the region of the Altai Mountains. It nests on the ground and lays speckled eggs, pear-shaped, four in number.
Even in Italy is passing through, it does not nest, and it’s rare to see him.
Stefano Greek instead, it has seen, photographed and the photo has made available, here are the other photos and next to the singing!
Below right, as usual, the classification card, taken from wikipedia. The species is not in danger, but is protected by various international conventions and national laws. The video at the bottom left was posted on youtube by Oleg Lyakhov.
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