Wood Sandpiper

Order - Charadriiformes 鸻形目
Family - Scolopacidae 丘鹬科 (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)
Genus - Tringa 鹬属

Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

鹰斑鹬 / 林鹬

    Size : 19–23 cm; 34–98 g; Wingspan 54–57 cm

             

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Monotypic (Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden)
  – N & C Europe through C Siberia to Anadyrland, Kamchatka and Commander Is, and NE China; occasionally Aleutian Is. Winters mainly in tropical and subtropical Africa and across S & SE Asia to S China, Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia.

Date : 26 March 2014
塱原湿地, 上水区, 新界, 香港
Long Valley Wetland, Sheung Shui District, New Territories, Hong Kong