Gr.: heteroskelus=with uneven legs
and L.: brevis=short + pes=foot
World Distribution:
BREEDS: Locally in Siberia, WINTERS: se Asia to Australasia
Habitat:
Streams & lakes, on migration seacoasts
Diet:
On breeding grounds mainly insects, on wintering grounds, mainly crabs; also other small invertebrates throughout
TitBit:
An extremely rare visitor, the occurrence of one in Burghead in northern Scotland in 1994 probably generated more speeding tickets than any other bird, as southern twitchers raced up the A9 to see it
Records and Distribution
First Record:
Gwynedd/Dyfed, 1981
(Thorpe, R.I. 1995. British Birds 88:255-262)
Total Number of Records (1958-2004):
2
Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in:
Too few records
Most Recent County Records:
Scotland:
Moray & Nairn
(1994),
North-east England:
No Records
North-west England:
No Records
English Midlands:
No Records
Eastern England:
No Records
South-east England:
No Records
South-west England:
No Records
Wales:
Ceredigion
(1981),
Other Names
Previously Heteroscelus brevipes
Gaelic:
Welsh:
Pibydd Gynffonlwyd
Danish:
Sibirisk klire
Dutch:
Siberische Grijze Ruiter
Finnish:
Aasianharmaaviklo
French:
Chevalier de Sibérie
German:
Grauschwanz-Wasserläufer
Hungarian:
Ázsiai Hamvascankó
Icelandic:
Grástelkur
Irish:
Italian:
Piro piro dorsogrigio
Norwegian:
Gråhalesnipe
Polish:
Brodziec szary
Portuguese:
Maçarico-cinzento
Spanish:
Archibebe gris
Swedish:
Sibirsk gråsnäppa
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Books and Monographs:
No books written recently
See Also:
Wikipedia entry
Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides.com
These data should be cited as: Robinson, R.A. (2005) BirdFacts: profiles of birds occurring in Britain & Ireland (v1.22, Oct 2008). BTO Research Report 407, BTO, Thetford (http://www.bto.org/birdfacts)
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