Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareolaLinnaeus, 1758

Native

Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa

Commonness: Very common
Best seen: Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The wood sandpiper is a small wader belonging to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. A Eurasian species, it is the smallest of the shanks, a genus of mid-sized, long-legged waders that largely inhabit freshwater and wetland environments, as opposed to the maritime or coastal habitats of other, similar species.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range: Inland subarctic to temperate wooded wetlands of north Palearctic: Scotland (north British Isles), north Scandinavia, Austria east through inland north Russia to west Chukotskiy Pen., to east Siberia and north-east China, in south through north Mongolia, north-east China, Kamchatka and Commander Is. (east Russia)
Non-breeding range: AF, OR, AU : inland subtropical to tropical small open wetlands of Paleotropics: Africa, south Arabian Pen., south and south-east Asia, Indonesian Arch., New Guinea, Australia (except Tasmania), Philippines, Taiwan, east China and Ryukyu Is. (south Japan)

03 · When