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WetlandScrapeMedium · 62 g
What the Wood Sandpiper sounds like
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The wood sandpiper resembles a longer-legged, more delicate form of the aforementioned green sandpiper (T. ochropus), or a solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria), albeit with a shorter, finer bill, brown back and longer yellowish legs. The wood sandpiper differs from the green by having a smaller, less contrasting white rump-patch, while the solitary sandpiper has no rump-patch, at all. However, the wood sandpiper is not closely related to these two species; its closest relative is the common redshank (T. totanus), with which it shares a sister relationship with the marsh sandpiper (T.
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When to see the Wood Sandpiper
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Wood Sandpiper
The map shades 157 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Mexico, Faroe Islands, Mayotte, Maldives, Samoa.
About the Wood Sandpiper
The wood sandpiper is a small wader belonging to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. A Eurasian species, it is the smallest of the shanks, a genus of mid-sized, long-legged waders that largely inhabit freshwater and wetland environments, as opposed to the maritime or coastal habitats of other, similar species.
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Easily confused with
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusThis species is a somewhat plump wader with a dark greenish-brown back and wings, greyish head and breast and otherwise white underparts.
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaThis species measures 18–23 cm (7.1–9.1 in) long, with a wingspan up to 50 cm (20 in) and a body mass of 31–65 g (1.1–2.3 oz).
Common GreenshankTringa nebulariaCommon greenshanks are brown in breeding plumage, and grey-brown in winter.
Side by side: Common Greenshank vs Wood Sandpiper · Green Sandpiper vs Wood Sandpiper · Solitary Sandpiper vs Wood Sandpiper
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