bird · Charadriiformes · Scolopacidae

Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola Linnaeus, 1758. Occurrence records of the Wood Sandpiper are shared on GBIF from around 18 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all Kruger National Park (2 638 records), in 6 provinces.

IUCN: Least concernScolopacidae

18reserves with records

5 359records around them

6provinces

LCIUCN category

Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) — Photo: Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
Kruger National ParkNational park	LP Limpopo	2 638
St. Lucia SystemProtected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	792
Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation AreaTransfrontier area	LP Limpopo	770
Marievale Bird SanctuaryGame reserve	GP Gauteng	719
Mapungubwe National ParkNational park	LP Limpopo	195
Diepsloot NatuurreservaatNature reserve	GP Gauteng	69
Bronkhorstspruit Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	34
Bronkies Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	33
OPM Prozesky Bird SanctuaryWildlife sanctuary	NW North West	32
Fort D' Acre ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	18
Tshukudu Private Game ReserveGame reserve	LP Limpopo	16
Loskop Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	MP Mpumalanga	14
Kowie Local Authority Nature ReserveNature reserve	EC Eastern Cape	10
Zimanga Private Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	7
Nooitgedacht Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	MP Mpumalanga	6
Bronkies Angling and Nature ReserveNature reserve	GP Gauteng	2
Boskop Dam Nature ReserveNature reserve	NW North West	2
Mokopane Biodiversity Conservation CentreWildlife sanctuary	LP Limpopo	2

By province

Gauteng: 5 reserves
Limpopo: 5 reserves
KwaZulu-Natal: 2 reserves
Mpumalanga: 2 reserves
Eastern Cape: 2 reserves
North West: 2 reserves

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Scientific name: Tringa glareola
GBIF taxon: 2481713
Wikidata: Q18837

More of the Scolopacidae family

Common Sandpiper Common Greenshank Little Stint Whimbrel Curlew Sandpiper Sanderling African Snipe Ruddy Turnstone Ruff Marsh Sandpiper Bar-tailed Godwit Eurasian Curlew Terek Sandpiper

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.