Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) - HBW 3, p. 512
French: Chevalier sylvain
German: Bruchwasserläufer
Spanish: Andarríos Bastardo
Taxonomy: Tringa Glareola Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Monotypic.
Distribution: N Europe through C Siberia to Anadyrland, Kamchatka and Commander Is; occasionally Aleutian Is. Winters mainly in tropical and subtropical Africa, across S Asia to S China, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia.
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A juvenile Locality Gressholmen Island, Oslo Fjord, Oslo & Akershus, Norway (Monotypic species)
Eric Roualet 27 August 2005 2 years ago 22 sec 3 -
A bird walking Locality Hedmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Eric Roualet 10 May 2009 2 years ago 15 sec 3 -
A bird on the ground, stretching wings. Locality Tauste, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (Monotypic species)
Jesús Laborda 11 April 2010 2 years ago 34 sec 3 -
A bird preening. Locality Tauste, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (Monotypic species)
Jesús Laborda 11 April 2010 2 years ago 1 min 4 sec 3 -
Bird in the hand, Turawa ornithological camp. Locality Opole Province, Poland (Monotypic species)
strixdexter85 11 July 2006 3 years ago 10 sec 3 -
A bird on a pond Locality Nianing, Thiès Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 1 January 2007 4 years ago 19 sec 3
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Green Sandpiper is looking around to find food
Locality Kookherd District, Bastak County, Hormozgān Province, Iran
Ghaffar 23 July 2011 1 year ago 3.4 -
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
Locality Tunisia
Guy Poisson 3 April 2009 2 years ago 3.4 -
A winter migrant
Locality Gundlupet, Chamarajanagar District, Karnataka, India (Monotypic species)
vasanthan.p.j 4 January 2012 1 year ago 3.3 -
White spot on blackish upper-side, Yellowish leg, Larger than green sandpiper and common sandpiper. Bicoloured beak.
Locality Durgapur, Bardhaman District, West Bengal, India
Sagar_Adhurya 10 March 2013 9 weeks ago 3.3 -
on grass
Locality Bhavnagar District, Gujarat, India
Shantilal Varu 24 March 2013 8 weeks ago 3.3 -
Walking on the shore.
Locality Lake Ziway, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Ken Havard 31 October 2011 1 year ago 3.3
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An adult alarming Locality Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Eastern Russia, Russia
(Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 9 July 2010 2 years ago 4.5 -
Calls of a bird standing on the grass.
Locality Glukhoye Lake, Magadan Oblast, Eastern Russia, Russia
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 June 2009 2 years ago 4 -
An adult giving alarm-calls. Locality Vasterbotten County, Sweden
(Monotypic species)
Iva Hristova 5 July 2008 3 years ago 3
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