Tringa glareola
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
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 |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Wood Sandpiper sighting in Keoladeo National Park on a given day, based on 1,177 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 57th most-seen of the 278 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Wood Sandpiper in Keoladeo National Park on a given day, against about 10% in June to August, the lowest months. That is one of Keoladeo National Park's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 240 mm in July.
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.
Yes
Of the 76 parks where we can rate Wood Sandpiper sightings, Keoladeo National Park has the highest daily chance: about 50%. Next come Yala National Park (Sri Lanka, about 40%) and Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe, about 40%). All parks ranked.
Same genus: Tringa
The closest relatives of the Wood Sandpiper that you can see in Keoladeo National Park (genus Tringa, Shanks, Tattlers, and Allies) are Green Sandpiper (about 40%), Common Greenshank (about 30%) and Marsh 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 Keoladeo National Park (1,177 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
