Spotted Redshank

The spotted redshank is a large wader 29–31 cm long, with a wingspan of 61–67 cm and a weight of 121–205 g. It is black in breeding plumage and very pale in winter, with red legs and bill and a white oval on the back that shows in flight; in breeding plumage the legs also turn dark grey. Juveniles are grey-brown finely speckled white above, with pale, finely barred underparts (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds across northern Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic, nesting on open boggy taiga with four eggs in a ground scrape, and migrates south to the Mediterranean, tropical Africa and tropical Asia for winter. The call is a creaking whistle teu-it, and the alarm call is kyip-kyip-kyip. Like most waders it feeds on small invertebrates (Wikipedia, general species account).