Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
Wood Sandpiper, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image

Lake Ziway, Ethiopia
January 2016

Wood Sandpiper breeds in northern Europe and Asia often in swampy areas such as peat bogs and mainly between the tundra and the coniferous forest. In the northern winter they migrate to sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, India, south-east Asia and Australia. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.
Wood Sandpiper, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia, January 2016 - click for larger image It is similar to Green Sandpiper T. ochropus but with several distinguishing features particularly the lack of a clear-cut breast band.

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