Sandpipers, Snipes

Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropus

The Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a 71 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It migrates.

Family

Sandpipers, Snipes

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

71 g

Habitat

Wetland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

99

Recorded in Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, India, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Portugal, Finland, Germany, Israel, Taiwan, Russia, Turkey, Estonia, China, Italy, Czechia, United Arab Emirates, Poland, Kenya, Greece, Hong Kong, Nepal, Republic of Korea, Austria, Ukraine, Iran, Morocco, Japan, Bulgaria, Thailand, Switzerland, Oman, Cyprus, Serbia, Hungary, Tanzania, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Gambia, Romania, Kuwait, Georgia, Pakistan, Croatia, Senegal, Uganda, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Slovakia, Ireland, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Qatar, Jordan, Latvia, Moldova, Philippines, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Iraq, Tunisia, Åland, Cambodia, Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Montenegro, Rwanda, Albania, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Cabo Verde, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Zambia, Afghanistan, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Malta, Malaysia, Laos.

Where to see it: Душанбе · пули Карамов болои дарёи Варзоб [Dushanbe · Karamov Bridge over Varzob River] (Tajikistan); Department of Agriculture's Gezira Research Station (Sudan); Сарбандҳои обтозакунии Душанбе [Dushanbe Water Treatment Impoundments] (Tajikistan); Tanjaro River · gravel mining, south pits (Iraq); Kurtlinskoye Reservoir and vicinity (Turkmenistan).

Photo: (c) Licheng Shih, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist