Tringa glareola
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
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.
The wood sandpiper was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Tringa glareola. Linnaeus cited his own Fauna Svecica that had been published in 1746. He specified the type locality as Europe but it is now restricted to Sweden. The species is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. The genus name, Tringa, is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) in 1599 by Aldrovandus, based on the Ancient Greek trungas, a "thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing" wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific glareola is from the Latin glarea, meaning "gravel".
The wood sandpiper resembles a longer-legged, more delicate form of the aforementioned green sandpiper (T. ochropus), or a solitary sandpiper... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quanzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 2 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Zanzibar City | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 5 | Denpasar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 6 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Karachi | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 9 | Agra | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Ponnani | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | akwarium warszawskiego ZOO | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Wood Sandpiper sighting in Ponnani on a given day, based on 268 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 46th most-seen of the 177 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.
January
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Wood Sandpiper in Ponnani on a given day, against under 5% in May to September, the lowest months. That is one of Ponnani's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 440 mm in June.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Wood 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.
10th of 126
Of the 126 cities where we can rate Wood Sandpiper sightings, Ponnani ranks 10th at about 20%. The best odds are in Quanzhou (China, about 40%), Vasai-Virar (India, about 40%) and Coimbatore (India, about 30%).
Same genus: Tringa
The closest relatives of the Wood Sandpiper that you can see in Ponnani (genus Tringa, Shanks, Tattlers, and Allies) are Common Greenshank (about 20%) and Green Sandpiper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Wood Sandpiper is recorded against all the birds logged in Ponnani (268 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.
