Marsh Sandpiper

Tringa stagnatilis(Bechstein, 1803)

Native

Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa

Commonness: Very common
Best seen: Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The marsh sandpiper is a small wader. It is a rather small shank, and breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to the Russian Far East. The genus name Tringa is the Neo-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. The specific stagnatilis is from Latin stagnum, "swamp".

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range: Temperate zone freshwater marshes of west-central to east-central Palearctic: east Poland and Baltic states east through south Russia, north Kazakhstan and north Mongolia to Amurland and north-east China
Non-breeding range: AF, OR, AU : inland and coastal wetlands of Paleotropics: Africa, north Middle East, south and south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., south New Guinea, Australia (except Tasmania), Mariana Is. and Palau (west Micronesia), Philippines, south China, Taiwan and Ryukyu Is. (south Japan)

03 · When