Description:

A rather small, very dark sandpiper, stockier, darker greenish-yellow legs. Adult breeding has white streaking on crown and neck, heavily streaked breast, and prominent whitish spotting on upperparts. Adult non-breeding is more uniform on head and breast, and is less distinctly spotted on upperparts.

Distribution:

Common passage migrant through all the major waterways and lakes of Gilgit-Baltistan. Usually found in wide variety of wetlands; including marshes, lakes, river banks, boggy areas and grasslands. From lowlands up to 3500m during passage migration.

Behavior:

Mainly pecks food from shallow water and from surface of ground and plants; rarely probes; sometimes uses trampling to stir up food and turns over stones underwater. Feeds on aquatic and terrestrial insects, mainly adults and larvae of beetles, but also dragonfly larvae, ants, water-bugs and moth larvae; annelids, small crustaceans, spiders, fish and plant fragments.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Green Sandpiper in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Green Sandpiper

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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