Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a traveling bird, and it can be seen around the mouth of the fishing river at the time of spring and autumn migration (April - June, August - October). Sometimes it forms a mixed group with Soliwasp. I often see it in the spring migration period.

Characteristic

The total length is 25 cm, and the sexes are the same color.
Summer wings are grayish brown with uniform top surface, grayish brown spots from face to neck. The eye line is dark, the eyeball group and the eye ring are white. The underside of the body is white, with gray-brown transverse plaque beside the chest. The beak is black and the base of the lower beak is light yellow. The foot is yellow.
In the winters, the chest and the upper face become somewhat darker, and the body has no mottle. From the throat and belly the tail tube becomes white.

Habit

Flats, estuaries, coastal sand beaches, rocky places, rivers, paddy fields and so on. Often you act with herds, sometimes over 100 birds. When resting it rests on waves erasing blocks, driftwoods, piles, rocks, shrubs and the like. Often staying in moored fishing boats etc. When jumping, it sounds like "Pyu".

distribution

Traveling bird. It can be seen throughout the country.
It breeds in the northeastern part of Siberia (in the northern part including the Kamchatka peninsula) and overwinter in the Philippine archipelago, the Indonesian archipelago, New Guinea, the eastern coast of Australia, and so on.