English: Common Greenshank, Greenshank
Russian: Большой улит
Mongolian: Үхэр хөгчүү
German: Grunschenkei
French: Chevalier aboyeur
Japanese: アオアシシギ (Aoashi-shigi)
Body length: 30-35 cm
Wing span: 68-70 cm
Passage migrant
Migration: Apr.-May; Aug.-Sep.
Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern
Food: Insects and their larvae, especially
beetles, crustaceans, and molluscs.
Habitat: This species passes through by late
April – early May (on spring migration) and by late August – early September (on
autumn migration), depending on food and weather conditions. They inhabit open
lake shores and river banks, swamps, ponds, flooded, meadows, dried-up lakes,
sandbars and marshes.