Left to the experts to id for me in Malaysian Bird Photography Forum. http://www.mybirdforum.net .For birders like me it is a good place to post your record shots or seeking help in identifying birds you see in the wild or captured especially waders and migrants water birds when a difference in color tone feather features or size can means a lifer or rare find.
The Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is a medium wader 2 inches short of a footer. It is a rather small shank, and it breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia.
It resembles a small elegant Greenshank, with a long fine bill and very long yellowish legs. Like the Greenshank, it is greyish brown in breeding plumage, paler in winter, and has a white wedge up its back that is visible in flight. However, it is more closely related to the Common Redshank and the Wood Sandpiper Together, they form a group of smallish shanks which tend to have red or reddish legs, and in breeding plumage are generally a subdued, light brown above with some darker mottling, with a pattern of somewhat diffuse small brownish spots on the breast and neck.
It is a migratory species, with majority of birds wintering in Africa, and India with fewer migrating to Southeast Asia namely Malaysia and as far as Australia. They prefer to winter on fresh water wetlands such as swamps and lakes and are usually seen singly or in small groups. My sighting was in Malim Nawar off Bidor Perak if you want to know.
These birds forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud. They mainly eat insects, and similar small prey.
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