Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Wood Sandpiper

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.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Subclass:Neornithes
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Scolopacidae
Genus:Tringa
Species:T. glareola
Binomial name
Tringa glareola
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Rhyacophilus glareola (Linnaeus, 1758)

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