Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropus Linnaeus, 1758

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Green Sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, is a wader of the Old World that breeds in Palearctic taiga wetlands from Scandinavia and Germany east to Sakha Republic, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Outside the breeding season it uses inland and coastal wetlands from the southern British Isles and Canary Islands through Africa, the Middle East and southern and south-eastern Asia to the Malay Peninsula, eastern China, the Philippines, Taiwan and Korea, reaching southern Japan. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae and is part of an old Tringa lineage, with its nearest living relative the solitary sandpiper.

Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes
Breeding range: Palearctic: subarctic to temperate zone taiga wetlands of Palearctic: Scandinavia (except far n) s to Germany, e to e Sakha Republic (ne Siberia), s through n, e Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, w, nw Xinjiang (nw China), n Mongolia and Inner Mongolia (ne China)
Nonbreeding range: sw PAL, AF, OR : temperate to tropical inland and coastal wetlands of Palearctic: s British Isles to Canary Is. (Macaronesia, w of n Africa), Africa (except far s), Middle East, s, se Asia to Malay Pen., e China, n, w Philippines, Taiwan, Korean Pen. and e, s Japan