A familiar bird to most European
birders, three races occur from Iceland to Eastern Asia, breeding in damp moorland 
and marshy areas. Highly migratory, wintering birds occur over an even 
larger area from Britain, through tropical Africa and to Australia. The left hand bird 
is an Eastern Asian race, smaller and with a somewhat reduced wing bar. 
 
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