Tringa ochropus
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
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. The green sandpiper was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Tringa ochropus. The genus name Tringa is the Neo-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 ochropus is from Ancient Greek okhros, "ochre", and pous, "foot". The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
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Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Green Sandpiper sighting in Agra on a given day, based on 103 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 119 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Green Sandpiper in Agra on a given day, against under 5% in October, the lowest month. That is one of Agra's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 190 mm in July.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green Sandpiper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 143
Of the 143 cities where we can rate Green Sandpiper sightings, Agra ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Vasai-Virar (India, about 30%), Xi'an (China, about 20%) and Kathmandu (Nepal, about 20%).
Same genus: Tringa
The closest relatives of the Green Sandpiper that you can see in Agra (genus Tringa, Shanks, Tattlers, and Allies) are Common Greenshank (about 30%), Wood Sandpiper (about 20%) and Common Redshank (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Green Sandpiper is recorded against all the birds logged in Agra (103 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
