Nordmann's Greenshank

Nordmann's greenshank, or the spotted greenshank, is a medium-sized sandpiper, 29–32 cm long, with a slightly upturned, two-coloured bill and relatively short yellow legs. Breeding adults are darker and often boldly marked, with dark brown spangling on the back, chest and head, a heavily streaked head and upper neck, broad blackish crescent spots on the lower neck and breast, and a white underbelly; non-breeding adults are lighter brown to grey with minimal spotting. The eggs are pale blue-green with darker grey to brown speckling (Wikipedia, general species account).

Breeding populations are found in eastern Russia along the south-western and northern coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk and on Sakhalin Island. It has been recorded on passage or in winter in Japan, North Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia, and moults during its southward migration. SoIB 2023 lists it as a winter migrant of wetland that eats invertebrates, without a priority category (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).