Bengali: গেওয়ালা বাটান
Scientific Name: Calidris pugnax
IUCN: Least Concern
Description: It is a medium sized wading bird with long neck, lack prominent supercilium, small head, short and slightly downcurved bill, strongly patterned back, white sides to upper tail coverts, white lower back absent. Long yellowish and orange legs.
Food: They are omnivores, and they feed on both invertebrates and seeds or berries. They eat flies, frogs, small fish, beetles, snails, spiders, worms, and more.
Habitat: During the breeding season they utilize marshes and flooded grasslands or meadows. They also inhabit scrubland, wetlands, and estuaries or deltas. These birds also live in flooded pastures and farms, and one of their favorite habitats are rice paddies.
Distribution: It breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.
