Wood Sandpiper

Latin Name: 
Tringa glareola
Size: 
20cm
Description: 

Sexes alike. Grey-brown above, closely spotted with white; slender build; white rump and tail; white below; brown on breast; no wing bar. Summer: dark olivebrown above, spotted white. The Green Sandpiper T. ochropus is stouter, more shy, much darker and glossy brown-olive above; in flight, white rump contrasts strikingly with dark upper body; blackish below wings diagnostic. Small to medium-size flocks, often with other waders; quite active, probing deep into mud or feeding at edge.

Habitat: 
wet cultivation, marshes, tidal creeks, mudflats.
Food: 
crustaceans, insects, molluscs.
Distribution: 
winter visitor to most of the area.
Call: 
Call Description: 
quite noisy; sharp, trilling notes on ground; shrill, somewhat metallic chiff…chiff calls when flushed; sometimes a loud, sharp tluie… call; T. ochropus has distinct, wild, ringing calls when flushed.
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