#0712 · 🐦 birds

Wood Sandpiper

🇳🇱 Bosruiter ·Tringa glareola

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The wood sandpiper ( Tringa glareola ) is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae. The genus name Tringa is the New 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 glareola is from Latin glarea , " gravel".

base stats

NL sightings 136iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 43,244iNaturalist observations
weight 73 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).