Green sandpiper: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the green sandpiper lives – recorded in 82 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Tringa ochropus
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	82 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	15.5 g (birth weight); 75 g (male organism, adult weight); 85 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Scolopacidae

Where does the green sandpiper live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the green sandpiper in 82 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, People's Republic of China, Africa, Hefei, Burkina Faso.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a green sandpiper?

Wikidata records the following for the green sandpiper: mass 15.5 g (birth weight); 75 g (male organism, adult weight); 85 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the green sandpiper endangered?

The green sandpiper’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the green sandpiper?

The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Scolopacidae, genus Tringa. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the green sandpiper

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

The green sandpiper represents an ancient lineage of the genus Tringa; its only close living relative is the solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria). They both have brown wings with little light dots and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern. In addition, both species nest in trees, unlike most other scolopacids.

Given its basal position in Tringa, it is fairly unsurprising that suspected cases of hybridisation between this species and the common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos) of the sister genus Actitis have been reported.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Green sandpiper (revision 1349494311), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q28450 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).