Wood sandpiper: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the wood sandpiper lives – recorded in 95 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Tringa glareola
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	95 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
Mass	13.5 g (birth weight); 62 g (male organism, adult weight); 73 g (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Scolopacidae

Where does the wood sandpiper live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the wood sandpiper in 95 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, Africa, South America, 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 wood sandpiper?

Wikidata records the following for the wood sandpiper: mass 13.5 g (birth weight); 62 g (male organism, adult weight); 73 g (female organism, adult weight).

Is the wood sandpiper endangered?

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

What kind of animal is the wood sandpiper?

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

About the wood sandpiper

The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader belonging to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. A Eurasian species, it is the smallest of the shanks, a genus of mid-sized, long-legged waders that largely inhabit freshwater and wetland environments, as opposed to the maritime or coastal habitats of other, similar species.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Wood sandpiper (revision 1379884845), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q18837 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).