Species profile
redshank, common redshank
Tringa totanus
Quick answer
Local names Man Awèr, Man Do Marmèr (Sansundi). Status Rare Palearctic migrant. Just four previous records on New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016). On Biak on 10 November 2017 a flock of four flew into the tsunami swamp calling (A. Walker, eBird checklist S 46415319) and one was seen well there again on 14 November 2017, and the observer speculated that the others were possibly out of view behind fallen trees (A. Walker, eBird checklist S 46415753).
- Scientific name
- Tringa totanus
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Tringa
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
Recording redshank, common redshank in your journal
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