BirdUp · Species
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropusLinnaeus, 1758
Least ConcernNative
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Local
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The green sandpiper is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- Subarctic to temperate zone taiga wetlands of Palearctic: Scandinavia (except far north) south to Germany, east to east Sakha Republic (north-east Siberia), south through north and east Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, west and north-west Xinjiang (north-west China), north Mongolia and Inner Mongolia (north-east China)
- Non-breeding range
- South-west PAL, AF, OR : temperate to tropical inland and coastal wetlands of Palearctic: south British Isles to Canary Is., Africa, Middle East, south and south-east Asia; rare vagrant to Australia (NT, WA, Christmas Island).
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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