Listen to the green sandpiper
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About the green sandpiper
The green sandpiper is a bird in the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 59 cm and weigh around 75 g.
What does the green sandpiper sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as nocturnal flight call, flight call, call and green sandpiper. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
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.
Related birds in the genus Tringa
More from the family Scolopacidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a green sandpiper sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the green sandpiper on this page, including its nocturnal flight call, flight call and call. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the green sandpiper endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the green sandpiper as “least concern”.
What family does the green sandpiper belong to?
The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) belongs to the family Scolopacidae in the order Charadriiformes.
Sources & credits
- Flight call, nocturnal flight call · Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands by Joost van Bruggen – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Nocturnal flight call · Oviedo, Asturias, Principado de Asturias, Spain by Luis Alvarez Menendez – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Flight call, nocturnal flight call · Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands by Joost van Bruggen – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Nocturnal flight call · Dresden, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany by Jens Loose – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Lüscherz, Bern, Switzerland by Pascal Christe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Green sandpiper by Akasmita – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q28450 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Green sandpiper – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by peterichman – CC BY-SA 2.0