Green Sandpiper
A species of Tringa Scientific name : Tringa ochropus Genus : Tringa
Green Sandpiper, A species of Tringa
Botanical name: Tringa ochropus
Genus: Tringa
Content
Description People often ask General Info
Photo By Francesco Veronesi , used under CC-BY-SA-2.0 /Cropped and compressed from original 
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. 
Size
21 - 24 cm
Colors
Brown
Gray
White
Life Expectancy
10 years
Feeding Habits
Green Sandpiper predominantly consumes aquatic and terrestrial insects, utilizing unique probing and picking techniques. Adapted for swift foraging, green Sandpiper feeds at water edges and shows preference for specific insect prey.
Habitat
Green Sandpiper is commonly found in damp wooded areas such as swampy pine, spruce, or alder woodlands near rivers, streams, swamps, or lakes. It prefers montane forests and wooded regions, showing less preference for trees during the non-breeding season and inhabiting a variety of inland fresh waters. Broadly, green Sandpiper occupies habitats in forested wetlands across temperate and subarctic regions. During migration and winter, it may also frequent marshes, riverbanks, sewage farms, small ponds, and ditches with protective vegetation, avoiding intertidal areas except saltmarsh channels. It has been recorded at high altitudes during the non-breeding season, such as 2730 m in Ethiopia, 2800 m in the Himalayas, and above 3000 m in Turkey.
Dite type
Aquatic invertebrate eater
People often ask
General Info
Distribution Area
It breeds across subarctic Europe and east across the Palearctic and is a migratory bird, wintering in southern Europe, the 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. 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. The green sandpiper is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Widely distributed and not uncommon, it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN on a global scale.
Species Status
Not globally threatened.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Shorebirds Family
Sandpipers Genus
Tringa Species
Green Sandpiper 
Download Picture Bird
Identify any bird by photo or sound in seconds
Identify any bird by photo or sound in seconds
.jpg){kind=link}