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    (c) Saurabh Agrawal, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Erik Eckstein, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Dhruva Punde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Лазарус Лонг, all rights reserved

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    (c) Dhruva Punde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Dmitry Dubikovskiy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

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About

The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) 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".

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