The species occupies various types of shallow and mainly freshwater wetlands – marshes and swamps, lake edges, riverbeds, sewage ponds and flooded fields, but also saltpans, coastal saltmarshes and alkaline lakes. It has wide distribution from Iberian Peninsula through most of S Europe, Middle East, C Asia to NE China, S & SE Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar (Pierce, Kirwan, 2020). European strongholds are in the Iberian Peninsula and Russia (Keller et al. 2020).
European-African migrant. Populations in the Middle East and Africa are largely resident.
Its population trend in Europe is stable. Evaluated as “Least Concern” (BirdLife International 2021).
| Season of assessment | B |
| Population trend | Increasing |
| Population size (min-max, best estimate) | 101000-269000,158000 |
| Red List category | LC |
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