Sandpipers, Snipes
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.
- Family
- Sandpipers, Snipes
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 62 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 117
Photo: Luiz Lapa from Oeiras, Portugal, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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