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| | Scientific name: Numenius phaeopus
Size: 38 - 43cm
Status: Moderately common.
Diet: Probes for worms and crustaceans, insects and also eats vegetable matter.
Habitat: Estuaries, mud flats, mangroves, sandpits and occasionally inland.
Breeding: Breeds in the northern hemisphere, nests in a hollow pressed in mosses or other soft surfaces. Three to five eggs incubated by both parents.
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| | Whimbrel
/Whimbrel/$File/Whimbrel.jpg) Migrates from the Arctic Circle to Australia for the summer. |
