Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareolaLinnaeus, C, 1758
English (US) Wood Sandpiper
The Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds wooded wetlands from Scotland and Scandinavia eastward through inland northern Russia to eastern Siberia and northeastern China, in south through northern Mongolia to Commander Islands (southeastern Russia); winters small wetlands from Africa eastward to southern Japan and southward to AustraliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tringa glareola
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Wood Sandpiper
- Described by
- Linnaeus, C, 1758
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tringa Glareola
- Described by
- Linnaeus, C, 1758
- Type locality
- Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.149
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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