Spotted Redshank

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

It breeds across northern Scandinavia and the northern Palearctic on open boggy taiga, laying four eggs in a ground scrape, and migrates south to the Mediterranean, the southern British Isles, France, tropical Africa and tropical Asia for the winter. The call is a creaking whistle, teu-it (Wikipedia, general species account).