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  3. Scolopacidae
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  5. Tringa
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  7. Green Sandpiper

BirdUp · Species

Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropusLinnaeus, 1758

Conservation status: Least ConcernOrigin: Native
Order
CHARADRIIFORMES
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Tringa

At a glance

The Green Sandpiper, listed as Least Concern and native to Australia. It can be seen year-round.

Conservation status
Least Concern
Origin
Native
Best seen
Year-round
Commonness
Local
  • Identification
  • Where
  • When

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

Field specs

Wingspan
41 cm

Measurements · avonet · CC BY 4.0

03 · When

When to look

When can you see a Green Sandpiper?

The Green Sandpiper is present across its Australian range year-round, so it can be seen in any month.

  1. Jan
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02 · Where

Where to find it

Where does the Green Sandpiper live in Australia?

The Green Sandpiper is native to Australia, recorded across 2 of Australia’s bioregions, with a core range spanning subarctic to temperate zone taiga wetlands of Palearctic.

BreedingSubarctic 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-breedingSouth-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).

Distribution from BirdUp Australia community data

Legend

  • Passage

1 region recorded