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Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola · Family Scolopacidae
Tringa glareola
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,619,446
- Countries and territories with records
- 172
About this species
This species has 1,619,446 occurrence records from 172 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (29.3%), India (12%), Denmark (6.3%), Taiwan (6.1%) and Finland (4.9%); together they account for 58.7% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.47% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tringa glareola combines the genus name Tringa with the species epithet glareola. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Tringa; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa totanus and Tringa flavipes.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.