Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola Linnaeus, 1758

Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, breeds across the Palearctic in inland wooded wetlands from Scotland and Scandinavia east through Russia to north-east China, and south to Mongolia, Kamchatka and the Commander Islands. Outside the breeding season it moves to Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, southern and south-east Asia, the Indonesian Archipelago, New Guinea, Australia apart from Tasmania, the Philippines, Taiwan, eastern China and the Ryukyu Islands. It is a sandpiper in the family Scolopacidae, and is the smallest of the shanks. It was described by Linnaeus in 1758.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

Palearctic: inland subarctic to temperate wooded wetlands of n Palearctic: Scotland (n British Isles), n Scandinavia, Austria e through inland n Russia to w Chukotskiy Pen., to e Siberia and ne China, in s through n Mongolia, ne China, Kamchatka and Commander Is. (e Russia)

Nonbreeding range

Africa, Oriental Region, Australasia: inland subtropical to tropical small open wetlands of Paleotropics: Africa, s Arabian Pen., s, se Asia, Indonesian Arch., New Guinea, Australia (except Tasmania), Philippines, Taiwan, e China and Ryukyu Is. (s Japan)