Listen to the wood sandpiper
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About the wood sandpiper
The wood 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 40 cm and weigh around 62 g.
What does the wood 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 flight call and call. 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 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.
Related birds in the genus Tringa
More from the family Scolopacidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a wood sandpiper sound like?
You can hear 2 recordings of the wood sandpiper on this page, including its 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 wood sandpiper endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the wood sandpiper as “least concern”.
What family does the wood sandpiper belong to?
The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) belongs to the family Scolopacidae in the order Charadriiformes.
Sources & credits
- Flight call · Kolkata, Kharibari, North 24 Paraganas 22 37.696 88 31.600 by Sudipto Roy – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Hagneck, Nidau, Bern, Switzerland by Pascal Christe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q18837 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Wood sandpiper – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India – CC BY 2.0