Green sandpiper

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Green sandpiper
At Standlake, Oxfordshire

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
Species:
T. ochropus
Binomial name
Tringa ochropus
Range of T. ochropus
  Breeding
  Passage
  Non-breeding

The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World.

The green sandpiper represents an ancient lineage of the genus

scolopacids.[2]

Given its

sister genus Actitis have been reported
.

Taxonomy

The green sandpiper was

monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]

Description

This species is a somewhat plump wader with a dark greenish-brown back and wings, greyish head and breast and otherwise white underparts. The back is spotted white to varying extents, being maximal in the breeding adult, and less in winter and young birds. The legs and short bill are both dark green.

It is conspicuous and characteristically patterned in flight, with the wings dark above and below and a brilliant white rump. The latter feature reliably distinguishes it from the slightly smaller but otherwise very similar solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria) of North America.

In flight it has a characteristic three-note whistle.

Distribution and migration

Eggs, Museum Wiesbaden

The green sandpiper breeds across subarctic

Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and tropical Africa
. Food is small invertebrate items picked off the mud as this species works steadily around the edges of its chosen pond.

This is not a gregarious species, although sometimes small numbers congregate in suitable feeding areas. Green sandpiper is very much a bird of

freshwater
, and is often found in sites too restricted for other waders, which tend to like a clear all-round view.

Breeding

It lays 2–4 eggs in an old tree nest of another species, such as a fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). The clutch takes about three weeks to hatch.

Status

Widely distributed and not uncommon, the green sandpiper is not considered a

IUCN on a global scale.[1] It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.[6]

Gallery

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22693243A86680632.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. S2CID 86221767
    .
  3. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 149.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  5. Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Species". Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). Retrieved 14 November 2021.

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