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Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Sandpipers and Allies
Wood Sandpiper, photographed by El Golli Mohamed

Photo: El Golli Mohamed · Wikimedia · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

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About the Wood Sandpiper

Medium-sized brownish wader with a white belly, varied pale spotting and spangling on back. In flight shows plain upperwings, square white rump patch. Legs greenish yellow. Breeds in bogs and marshes in open coniferous and mixed forests. Migrants and wintering birds occur in varied wetland habitats, especially with grassy and other vegetation cover. Walks in shallow water, picking with its bill. Mainly found as singles or small flocks, not mixed with other species. Bobs tail when nervous, but not habitually like Common Sandpiper.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 173 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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