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Wood Sandpiper

wood sandpipier, chevalier sylvain, andarrios bastardo, Tringa glareola, birds of kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya
Names, conservation status and distribution
wood sandpipier, chevalier sylvain, andarrios bastardo, Tringa glareola, birds of kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya
Lake Naivasha
wood sandpipier, chevalier sylvain, andarrios bastardo, Tringa glareola, birds of kenya, birds of africa, Nicolas Urlacher, wildlife of kenya
Lake Naivasha

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". This bird is usually found on freshwater during migration and wintering. They forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud, and mainly eat insects and similar small prey. Wood Sandpiper nests on the ground or uses an abandoned old tree nest of another bird. The wood sandpiper is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

Source : Wikipedia