David Hodgkinson

A large sandpiper with long greenish legs, with an extended boreal distribution across Eurasia, from Scotland to Eastern Siberia and Kamchatka. Winters across the Mediterranean basin, whole Africa exept the Sahara, east to South-East Asia and Australia. Monotypic and populations stable in numbers.

Season of assessment

B

Population trendIncreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)		452000-942000,646000
Red List categoryLC
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
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Overall Connectivity for Common Greenshank

Overall direction of migration is to the S-SW, so that the connectivity pattern is very well structured longitudinally. There are few recoveries documenting long-distance movements, representing recoveries in the Afrotropics, with a clear correlation between the longitudes at ringing and at recovery. Most recoveries concern birds within the first thousand kilometres from the ringing site, moving within Europe, for example from North to South-West Europe, etc. In Africa, there is only one recovery in the southern hemisphere.

Recoveries by Condition for Common Greenshank

The recovery conditions are a balance of recaptures, colour ring reads and shot birds, with the classical shift from dead to live re-encounters and increase in numbers from 1950 to the current period.

Annual Movements for Common Greenshank

Tagged Scottish birds wintered in the British Isles and Western France, mainly along Irish coasts, and used short-term staging sites during both the southward and northward migrations (Summers et al. 2020). There is evidence for earlier spring migration after warmer winters, but autumn migration delay is not linked to climate (Anthes 2010).

Connectivity by Month by Region for Common Greenshank

Birds present in northern Scandinavia in May-July move to southern Scandinavia, the Wadden Sea and northern France in August-September, with recoveries on Mediterranean coasts in October, and records in Africa, but also southern Iberia and Italy, from November to March. Birds of the North-West region are absent from the continent only in May, though present further S and W from August to March.

Frédéric Jiguet

References

Statistics Map
N records N individuals N recoveries
Mapped data*
Total available data
*Mapped data include only distant (>= 50 km) recoveries
References Map
Anthes, N. 2004 . Long-distance migration timing of Tringa sandpipers adjusted to recent climate change. 51 Link to Article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00063650409461355) Bird Study : 203–211
Summers, R., Christian, N., Etheridge, B., Rae, S., Cleasby, I., Pálsson, S.2020 . Scottish-breeding Greenshanks Tringa nebularia do not migrate far. Bird Study 67 Link to Article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2020.1733488) : 1–7

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