Wood Sandpiper

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Wood Sandpiper

(Tringa glareola), a bird of the family Charadriidae of the suborder Limicolae. The body length is 20–25 cm, and the plumage is black and white mottled. The wood sandpiper nests in the forest-tundra and forest zones of Europe and Asia and winters in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. It settles on the marshy banks of rivers and muddy shores of lakes. It nests on the ground or in trees in abandoned nests of other birds. A clutch contains four eggs. The wood sandpiper feeds on insects, spiders, worms, and small mollusks.

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