For the identification of insects and other fauna and flora of South Africa.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Ruff

A medium size bird found at inland estuaries and waters.
 It breeds in Europe during our winters and migrates back in the summer.
 They forage both day and night on insects, molluscs, worms and berries.

2 comments:

Diane said...

Now I am sure I would have looked for that under plovers and wondered why I could not find it!! Keep well Diane

SAPhotographs (Joan) said...

It sure is "ploverish". :)