Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) 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. Taxonomy The wood sandpiper was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Tringa glareola.
Le Chevalier sylvain (Tringa glareola) est une espèce d'oiseaux Charadriiformes de la famille des Scolopacidae. Selon la classification de référence du Congrès ornithologique international (version 15. 2, 2026), c'est une espèce monotypique (non subdivisée en sous-espèces).
El andarríos bastardo (Tringa glareola) es una especie de ave caradriforme de la familia Scolopacidae. No se reconocen subespecies. Descripción Es bastante estilizado, con el cuello y las patas largas.
Distribution
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