English: Marsh Sandpiper
Russian: Поручейник
Mongolian: Бүрдний хөгчүү
German: Teichwasserlaufer
French: Chevalier stagnatile
Japanese: コアオアシシギ (Ko-aoashi-shigi)

Body length: 22-26 cm
Wing span: 55-59 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number:4 (occasionally 5)
Egg colour: Creamy-buff with reddish to blackish-brown spots, blotches.
Brood: 1 per year

Global Status: Least concern
Regional Status: Least Concern

Food: Insects and their larvae, crustaceans and molluscs.

Habitat: Wetlands from open steppe to forest steppe, including shallow freshwater and brackish marshland, grassy and marshy lake-edges, river valleys, and flooded meadows. Nest is a shallow hollow in grass, lined with dry grass on the ground. On migration it occurs on the margins of inland freshwater and brackish wetlands.