#0687 · 🐦 birds

Green Sandpiper

🇳🇱 Witgat ·Tringa ochropus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The green sandpiper ( Tringa ochropus ) is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. 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 ochropus is from Ancient Greek okhros , "ochre", and pous , "foot".

base stats

NL sightings 187iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 29,316iNaturalist observations
weight 85 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).