English: Curlew Sandpiper
Russian: Краснозобик
German: Sichelstrandlaufer
French: Becasseau cocorli
Mongolian: Хадуур элсэг
Japanese: サルハマシギ (Saru-hamashigi)
Body length: 18-23 cm
Wing Span: 38-41 cm
Passage migrant
Migration: Apr.-May; Aug.-Sep.
Global status: Least Concern
Regional Status: Least Concern
Food: Insects, polychaete worms, molluscs,
crustaceans and seeds.
Habitat: This species passes through open
muddy, rocky and bare shores of temporal and permanent saline and freshwater
lakes and wise sandy beaches of large rivers,, muddy edges of marshes and
flooded areas.
