It lives around wetlands in Central Asia and the Middle East, with pale sandy plumage and long yellow legs. In flight its wings show brown, black and white, and the tail is white. It is a very rare vagrant to Britain.
It has pale sandy plumage and long yellow legs. In flight the wings show brown, black and white, and the tail is white.
It is often found in densely vegetated wetlands.
It feeds mainly in shallow water, taking prey from the surface or dipping its bill and sometimes its head below water. Foods include beetles, earthworms, grasshoppers, small molluscs and crustaceans.
The female makes a shallow ground scrape lined with plants, lays 3–4 brown-spotted eggs and incubates them. The male guards the area. Chicks can run and feed themselves soon after hatching and remain under adult protection.
Juveniles have dark brown crescents across the upperparts and wing coverts, giving a scaled appearance. The sexes have similar plumage.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.