Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Caradriformes)
- FamilyScolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies)
- GenusTringa (Shanks, Tattlers, and Allies)
- SpeciesTringa glareola (Wood Sandpiper)
Closest Relatives at Gauja National Park
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Eurasian Woodcock
Scolopax rusticola
Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinago
Jack Snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus
Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatus
Little Tern
Sternula albifrons
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellus
Common Gull
Larus canus
📅 Monthly Probability
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there
Parks Where Found
Quick answers
What are the chances of seeing a Wood Sandpiper in Gauja National Park?
About 1% of visitor-days record a Wood Sandpiper sighting in Gauja National Park, based on 8 observer-days of citizen-science data from GBIF.
When is the best time to see Wood Sandpiper in Gauja National Park?
July has the highest sighting rate for Wood Sandpiper in Gauja National Park in our monthly data.