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Wood sandpiper

Tringa glareola

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Field Notes

Description:

It resembles a longer-legged and more delicate green (T. ochropus) or solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria) with a short fine bill, brown back and longer yellowish legs. It differs from the first of those species in a smaller and less contrasting white rump patch, while the solitary sandpiper has no white rump patch at all.

Habitat:

Spotted near a water hole inside IIM Trichy campus.

Reference Links:

Wood sandpiper - Wikipedia

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