Green Sandpiper

Description:

This is a small, plump palearctic wader from family Scolopacidae, mainly dark green-brown more or less cream-spotted coat with white underparts. White chest do not form a white wedge on shoulder, like in Common Sandpiper. Legs are green-grey.

Habitat:

Seen on shores of soda lake in central Kenya. Observed during four to five days of my stay on shores, in loosely congregated groups of various waders, gulls and cormorants.

Notes:

Other birds observed in this flocks were Common, Wood and Marsh Sandpipers, Greenshanks, Ruffs, stilts and stints, as well as some smaller plovers (Common, Kittlitz, three-banded plover)