A wood sandpiper stands on a narrow strip of pale sand between dark bog mud and deep blue water. The small wader has brown, heavily speckled upperparts, a white belly, a pale stripe above the eye and a straight dark bill, seen in profile facing right.
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Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

Moderate Least concern Photographed

1 photo · first photographed 2026-04-25

Distribution

Range

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Range: iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0) · Base map: Natural Earth (public domain)

Quick facts

Group
Birds
Family
Scolopacidae
Size
19–21 cm (length)
Weight
50–90 g
Diet
Insectivore
Lifespan
7–9 yrs
Habitat
Bogs, Marshes, Wet meadows, Taiga

About

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 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), abridged.

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