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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.
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of sandpipers in the genus Scolopax.The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. [1]
Flight speeds of migrating birds have been clocked at 16 to 28 mi/h (26 to 45 km/h). However, the slowest flight speed ever recorded for a bird, 5 mi/h (8 km/h), was recorded for this species. [ 15 ] Woodcocks are thought to orient visually using major physiographic features such as coastlines and broad river valleys. [ 9 ]
Wood sandpiper, by JJ Harrison. White-throated rock thrush, ... Male mallard in mid-flight at Birds of North American boreal forests, by Alan D. Wilson.
Breeding territories must include a mix of dry, warm resting places, damp areas for feeding, and clearings for flight. [12] In larger woods, wide "rides" (open tracks through the wood) and small clearings are important. In winter, Eurasian woodcock also use scrubland during the day [10] but in freezing weather they may use intertidal mud. [12]
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