Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Caradriformes)
- FamilyScolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies)
- GenusTringa (Shanks, Tattlers, and Allies)
- SpeciesTringa ochropus (Green Sandpiper)
The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. The green sandpiper represents an ancient lineage of the genus Tringa; its only close living relative is the solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria). They both have brown wings with little light dots and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern. In addition, both species nest in trees, unlike most other scolopacids. Given its basal position in Tringa, it is fairly unsurprising that suspected cases of hybridisation between this species and the common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos) of the sister genus Actitis have been reported. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Cévennes National Park
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Spotted Redshank
Tringa erythropus
Jack Snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Eurasian Woodcock
Scolopax rusticola
Eurasian Stone-curlew
Burhinus oedicnemus
Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellis
Black-bellied Plover
Pluvialis squatarola
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscus
Eurasian Dotterel
Charadrius morinellus
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Green Sandpiper at Cévennes National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ 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