Bird / Tringa glareola
Wood Sandpiper
Lowest risk
Migratory
The wood sandpiper is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific glareola is from Latin glarea, " gravel".
- Average mass
- 159 g
- Range length
- 190 to 210 mm
- Range wingspan
- 120 to 134 mm
- Breeding interval
- Wood sandpipers breed seasonally.
- Breeding season
- Wood sandpipers breed from May to August.
- Range eggs per season
- 3 to 4
- Average eggs per season
- 4
- Range time to hatching
- 22 to 23 days
- Range fledging age
- 28 to 31 days
- Average time to independence
- 1 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 1 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 1 years
- Average lifespan
Status: wild - 9.2 years
Buettner, A. and J. Pazos 2013. "Tringa glareola" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Tringa_glareola/
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