Tringa totanus
Red-footed sandpiper, belonging to the vertebrate, ornithischia, plover order, sandpiper family, sandpiper genus. Also known as the barefoot sandpiper and the eastern red-legged, it inhabits wetlands, lakes or offshore areas with dense aquatic plants with slow flow rates, and is good at swimming, and is distributed throughout the country. Photo taken at Baoshan.
Unlike the large aquatic birds such as cranes and storks, the red-footed sandpiper is very petite. It weighs between 97 and 150 grams and is about 28 centimeters long, but a pair of large legs gives the illusion that it is tall and tall.
The coat color of the red-footed sandpiper varies from season to season. In summer , its head and upper body are grey-brown , with regular black-brown plumage. The dorsal and biplanet coverts are covered with black spots and transverse spots. Most of the rest of the body is white with fine dark brown longitudinal stripes. In winter, the red-footed sandpiper has lighter dry lines on the side of the head, neck and thorax than the summer feathers.
The only thing that does not change with the seasons in the body color of the red-footed sandpiper is its legs, which are orange-red all year round, and because of its large distribution throughout Asia, Western biologists in the early years also called it "Eastern Red Legs".
The red-footed sandpiper is a migratory bird, perhaps because the distribution area is too vast, and the migration patterns and migration seasons of different regions are subtlely different, such as summer migratory birds and winter migratory birds. The red-footed sandpiper population living in northeast China generally migrates to the northeast breeding ground in March and April in the spring and away from the breeding ground in September to October in the autumn.
Regarding migration and reproduction, there is such a small episode that occurred in our Yunnan. On the afternoon of April 20, 2020, bird watchers spotted a flock of 43 red-footed sandpipers in Baoshan Qinghuahai National Wetland Park. This is also the largest population found in the Qinghuahai National Wetland Park in recent years, according to scientists, this group of red-footed sandpipers in the wetland park for a short rest and rectification, after supplementing food, will fly to the northwest, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and eastern Inner Mongolia for mating and breeding.
Wang Jinfang, a native of Baoshan. Since 2005, he has been photographing the customs and natural scenery of his hometown in his spare time, and recording the unique beauty of Baoshan with his lens.
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