Description:

Green legs; distinctly larger than other green-legged shorebirds, with a dark, rather stout bill slightly upturned at tip. Upperparts grey and foreneck and underparts white in non-breeding plumage. In breeding plumage, foreneck and breast streaked, upperparts untidily streaked. Juvenile has dark-streaked upperparts with fine buff.

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 4200m during passage migration.

Behavior:

Usually pecks and probes in shallow water walking with steady pass, sometimes running with erratic changes of direction; when feeding on fish may forage socially in dense flocks of conspecifics or mixed with other stringiness. Chiefly feeds on insects and their larvae, especially beetles, but also crustaceans, annelids, molluscs, amphibians and small fish; reported also rodents.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Common Greenshank in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Common Greenshank

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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