Family

Scolopacidae

Habits

Wash larger items of their diet before eating them.

Habitat

Coastal, soft brackish muds on coastal lagoons; estuaries; tidal flats or swamps; mangroves.

Breeding

June July (Europe/Asia), 4; stone-buff to brown. Both sexes incubate 21 days.

Parks

Kakadu National Park

Diet

Omnivore, beetles; flies; grasshoppers; ants; marine worms; crustaceans; molluscs and seeds.

Details

Common Name: Broad-billed Sandpiper Scientific Name: Limicola falcinellus
Sub Order: Unavailable Order: Charadriiformes
Class: Aves Category: Native
Status: Not Evaluated (in the NT) Size: Unavailable

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