Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropus

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The Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. It 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.

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  1. (c) Ray Cui, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/23935695@N00/68865722
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tringa_ochropus

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