#green sandpiper

[michaelnordeman]

Billtjärn urskog nature reserve in Jämtland, Sweden (May 30, 2024).

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

What color is the green sandpiper? Here's a hint: not green! The plumage of adults is primarily grey or brown with a white underbelly; however, both the bill and the legs are dark green! As if that weren't unusual enough, green sandpipers are one of the few sandpipers that nest in trees rather than on the ground.

(Image: A green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) by Paul Cools)

[blogbirdfeather]

Green Sandpiper - Maçarico-bique-bique (Tringa ochropus)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (21/11/2025)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR]

[sugiichi]

Tringa ochropus [クサシギ,Green Sandpiper]

今年も池に来てくれました😄👏

[dansnaturepictures]

We have had an awesome weekend in Rutland attending the Global Bird Fair which I always love going to. Across two days in the fair it was good to have our annual photo with Simon King, chat to lots of other great people, hear inspiring talks, watch fun quizzes and see birds including Whitethroat, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Wren and Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker being ringed at the ringing demonstration and Elephant Hawk-moth, Brimstone moth and others at the Butterfly Conservation stand. The talks and chats included insightful looks into how Springwatch and the wildlife bits of the One Show are made, a look at the groundbreaking and inspiring work of Roy Dennis and others translocating species to return them to areas especially Ospreys and White-tailed Eagles, hear fascinating tales of David Lindo and Simon King’s lives in nature and catch up with people we know from the fair in the past, social media and Heatherlea the company we have been on Scotland birding holidays with. As always a feel good and fulfilling weekend for a good cause of the brilliant project the fair is supporting this year helping the Southern Ocean’s Seabirds. 

The wild side of the weekend was wonderful as we enjoyed special time in the Rutland Water Lyndon and Egleton nature reserves on Friday and Saturday. Dragonflies claimed the stage of sunny heatwave days as Brown and Southern Hawker and Emperor confidently patrolled the pathways and water’s edge and ruby Ruddy Darters flitted around vegetation with Black-tailed Skimmer and Broad-bodied Chaser enjoyed too. On Friday a stunning patch of path side meadow adorned with tufted vetch, scabious, viper’s-bugloss, bird’s-foot trefoil and more teemed with lepidoptera life with Comma, Peacock, many Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Common Blue, Small Copper and Small Skipper butterflies and Six-spot Burnet moths with Mother of Pearl moth seen on a magical and tranquil Saturday evening immersed in nature. I was mesmerised watching a Muntjac at close quarters in a hide. Birding delight came in the form of a glorious gull seen, only our second ever Caspian Gull and Green Sandpiper and Greenshank were another two fine sightings. Also top of the tree for birds were Red Kite, an exciting view of a Hobby and the regal Rutland Ospreys with some splendid views of these terrific raptors. 

Other highlights this weekend included Stock Dove, Great White Egret, Yellowhammer heard, Red Admiral, Brimstone, Black Clock beetle, water mint, marsh woundwort, hoverflies and oh so many wasps the emblem of this Bird Fair. The photos in this set from the weekend are of; goatsbeard, Mute Swan, Large White butterfly, a hot view, the Caspian Gull, an Osprey with the scenic Burley-on-the-Hill house visible from much of Rutland Water in the background and bird's-foot trefoil, scabious and yarrow.

[naturelovetheta]

Day 54

Green Sandpiper

Tringa ochropus

[angstybreadstyx]

Shidaisaurus Jinae: tribute to Jin-Shidai company which owned a park near the site.

-A Metriacanthosaurid dinosaur from early to middle Jurassic China.

-Shidaisaurus was estimated at about 23 feet long and is the oldest allosauroid to date.

-The Holotype was a partial skeleton which lacked the majority of the tail vertibrate, pectoral girdle, and limb bones.

-I was unable to find a formal description of this animal or images of its bones, therefore I don’t think it has been formally described yet.

Colored based on a Green Sandpiper

[avianeurope]

Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochrapus) >>by Alan McCluskie