Marsh Sandpiper
Tringa stagnatilis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 7,466
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) 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".
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Marsh sandpiper”.