Wood Sandpiper

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Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_3622 20220416 - breeding plumage.

Notes: White-spotted upperparts, long white supercilium, white eye-ring.
Straight black bill. Yellow-green legs. Nervous tail bobbing. Migrant from
subarctic Siberia to freshwater wetlands mainly in N Aust. Aug–Apr.

Range from Morcombe^©

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_3614 20220416 - breeding plumage. CLICK for another pic.

Kununurra Sewage Ponds, NW WA IMG_6591 20180811 - pale underwing, white rump, barring on tail. CLICK for a pic w.
Black-fronted Dotterel.

Morabito Road, Yorky's Knob, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_7240 20260120 - adult non-breeding plumage.
CLICK for video of feeding activity. Shows white rump towards end of video.

Edithvale Wetland, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_5086 20170115 - non-breeding plumage

Hasties Swamp NP, Atherton, FN Qld IMG_0988 20201101 - non-breeding plumage

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, S Vic IMG_3605 20220416 - breeding plumage.

Morabito Road, Yorky's Knob, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_8013 20260120- non-breeding plumage.

Kununurra Sewage Ponds, NW WA MVI_6607+6622 20180811 - a bit of a confrontation & one flies off.