English: Spotted Redshank, Spotted Sandpiper
Russian: Щёголь
Mongolian: Хар хөгчүү
German: Dunkler Wasserlaufer
French: Chevalier arlequin
Japanese: ツルシギ (Tsuru-shigi)
Body length: 29-31 cm
Wing span: 61-67 cm
Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August
Egg number: 4 (occasionally 2-3)
Egg colour: Olive or green with purple-brown,
reddish-brown spots.
Brood:
1 per year
Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern
Food: Aquatic insects, their larvae,
terrestrial flying insects, small crustaceans.
Habitat: The species migrates along lake
shores, river banks, salt-marshes, shallow and muddy bare shores, marshes and
marshy lake edges, small reservoirs, pools and flooded grasslands all over
Mongolia by late April-early May and late August-early September depending food
and weather conditions. It forms small and large flocks consisting of 10 to 300
individuals in Mongolia.