Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Densely spotted pale above, with a supercilium reaching back to the nape and yellowish-green legs, the wood sandpiper looks more delicate than the similar green sandpiper. In flight, the pale underwing helps to tell them apart, as does its typical multi-syllable call “giff-giff-giff”.
- Group
- Waders & Waterbirds
- Photos
- 1
- Taken
- 2024
Profile: Wood Sandpiper
- Family
- Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)
- Size
- approx. 19–21 cm
- Wingspan
- approx. 36–40 cm
- Weight
- approx. 50–90 g
- Habitat
- Breeds in open raised bogs and marshes of northern Europe and Russia; on migration at shallow lakes and ponds, mudflats and flooded meadows.
- Diet
- Insects, especially aquatic insects and their larvae, plus tadpoles, small crustaceans and water snails picked up in shallow water.
- When to see
- Long-distance migrant and mainly a passage visitor in Central Europe: seen in spring and from late summer into autumn; winters mainly in tropical Africa.
Learn more: Wikipedia · NABU (German)