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Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

Classification

Class
Aves

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 26,271Netherlands · 18,478France · 11,817Germany · 11,187United Kingdom · 7,350Italy · 4,356Switzerland · 1,890Belgium · 1,030Luxembourg · 39