Description:

A smallish dark sandpiper browner, with coarser marks above, a long prominent pale supercilium. Adult breeding has heavily streaked breast and barred flanks; upperparts barred and spotted pale grey-brown and white. Adult non-breeding has more uniform grey-brown upperparts, spotted whitish, and breast brownish and lightly streaked.

Distribution:

Common passage migrant through south-western parts of Gilgit-Baltistan. Usually found in wide variety of wetlands; including marshes, lakes, river banks, boggy areas and grasslands. From lowlands up to 3500m during passage migration.

Behavior:

Gleans, pecks, probes or sweeps bill through water; also able to catch flying insects from air. Mainly detects prey visually. Feeds in shallow water or on mud; occasionally swims. On breeding grounds chiefly takes small, especially aquatic insects. Elsewhere, aquatic and terrestrial insects and their larvae, worms, spiders, crustaceans, molluscs, small fish and tadpoles; sometimes seeds.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Wood Sandpiper in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Wood Sandpiper

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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