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    Wood Sandpiper: 1 Description and Systematics

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    The wood sandpiper is a small wader and the smallest of the shanks. It resembles a more delicate green sandpiper or solitary sandpiper with brown back and longer yellowish legs. The wood sandpiper breeds in wetlands from Scotland across Europe and Asia, and migrates to Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. It forages in shallow water or wet mud for insects and small prey, and nests on the ground or in abandoned tree nests.

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    The wood sandpiper is a small wader and the smallest of the shanks. It resembles a more delicate green sandpiper or solitary sandpiper with brown back and longer yellowish legs. The wood sandpiper breeds in wetlands from Scotland across Europe and Asia, and migrates to Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. It forages in shallow water or wet mud for insects and small prey, and nests on the ground or in abandoned tree nests.

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    Wood sandpiper

    The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader.


    This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks,
    which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family
    Scolopacidae.

    Description and systematics

    It resembles a longer-legged and more delicate green (T.


    ochropus) or solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria) with a short
    ne bill, brown back and longer yellowish legs. It diers
    from the rst of those species in a smaller and less contrasting white rump patch, while the solitary sandpiper
    has no white rump patch at all.[2]
    However, it is not very closely related to these two species.
    Rather, its closest relative is the common redshank (T.
    totanus), and these two share a sister relationship with the
    marsh sandpiper (T. stagnatilis). These three species are
    a group of smallish shanks with red or yellowish legs, a
    breeding plumage that is generally subdued light brown
    above with some darker mottling and with a pattern of
    somewhat diuse small brownish spots on the breast and
    neck.[3]

    Egg, Collection Museum Wiesbaden

    Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands about once per decade.


    This species is encountered in the western Pacic region
    between mid-October and mid-May.[4] A slight westward
    expansion saw the establishment of a small but permanent
    breeding population in Scotland since the 1950s.
    This bird is usually found on freshwater during migration
    and wintering. They forage by probing in shallow water or
    on wet mud, and mainly eat insects and similar small prey.
    T. glareola nests on the ground or uses an abandoned old
    tree nest of another bird, such as the eldfare (Turdus
    pilaris).[2] Four pale green eggs are laid between March
    and May.

    Ecology

    The wood sandpiper is one of the species to which the


    Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
    Widespread, it is considered a Species of Least Concern
    by the IUCN.[5]

    3 Footnotes
    [1] BirdLife International (2012). "Tringa glareola". IUCN
    Version 2013.2.
    Red List of Threatened Species.
    International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

    In non-breeding plumage

    The wood sandpiper breeds in subarctic wetlands from


    the Scottish Highlands across Europe and Asia. They
    migrate to Africa, Southern Asia, particularly India, and
    Australia. Vagrant birds have been seen as far into the
    Pacic as the Hawaiian Islands. In Micronesia it is a regular visitor to the Mariana Islands (where ocks of up
    to 32 birds are reported) and Palau; it is recorded on

    [2] Hayman et al. (1986)


    [3] Hayman et al. (1986), Pereira & Baker (2005)
    [4] Hayman et al. (1986), Wiles et al. (2000), VanderWerf
    (2006), VanderWerf et al. (2006)
    [5] BLI (2008)

    References
    Hayman, Peter; Marchant, John & Prater, Tony
    (1986): Shorebirds: an identication guide to the
    waders of the world. Houghton Miin, Boston.
    ISBN 0-395-60237-8

    Pereira, Srgio Luiz & Baker, Alan J. (2005):


    Multiple Gene Evidence for Parallel Evolution
    and Retention of Ancestral Morphological States
    in the Shanks (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
    The Condor 107(3): 514526. doi:10.1650/00105422(2005)107[0514:MGEFPE]2.0.CO;2 PDF fulltext
    VanderWerf, Eric A. (2006): Observations on the
    birds of Kwajalein Atoll, including six new species
    records for the Marshall Islands. Micronesica 38(2):
    221237. PDF fulltext
    VanderWerf, Eric A.; Wiles, Gary J.; Marshall, Ann
    P. & Knecht, Melia (2006): Observations of migrants and other birds in Palau, AprilMay 2005,
    including the rst Micronesian record of a Richards
    Pipit. Micronesica 39(1): 1129. PDF fulltext
    Wiles, Gary J.; Worthington, David J.; Beck, Robert
    E. Jr.; Pratt, H. Douglas; Aguon, Celestino F. &
    Pyle, Robert L. (2000): Noteworthy Bird Records
    for Micronesia, with a Summary of Raptor Sightings
    in the Mariana Islands, 19881999. Micronesica
    32(2): 257284. PDF fulltext
    Pizzey, Graham and Knight, Frank: The Field Guide
    to the Birds of Australia. HarperCollins, Sydney.
    2012.

    External links
    Wood sandpiper Species text in The Atlas of
    Southern African Birds.
    Oriental Bird Images: Wood Sandpiper Selected
    photos
    Ageing and sexing (PDF; 1.8 MB) by Javier BlascoZumeta & Gerd-Michael Heinze

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