Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 27,917
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Wood sandpiper”.