Field signs. Forehead, neck and side of the head white crown burovato-gray, back clay-gray with purple otlivom; goiter burovato gray, chest aspidno-gray. Legs are light yellow. Young birds back clay-brown with blackish-brown spots, neck and crop dust-smoked. Wing 164-177 mm (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). Distribution. In the former Soviet Union: clay-solontsevatye stations in the flood plains of rivers and lakes in the Aral-Caspian lowlands (river valleys Atrek, Tejen, Murgab, Amu Darya, Syr Darya and lower Sarisu, as well as the northern coast of the Aral Sea); possible nesting in the south-east Azerbaijan. Zaletnye birds were on the Volga River from the lower to Kazan (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). References. |
