wood sandpiper

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A very handsome chap the sandpiper and very well depicted here Pratim.

Beautifully done - wonderful relationship between bird and its environment.

Thanks Stephen Slater ... Thanks Robert Jones Sir ...

PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 422 (Observe the Bird and recognize)..WOOD SANDPIPER ...[From a Photograph of Gaythri & Mansur Nature Photography ] ... WATERCOLOUR ...A4...2014... The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae. It resembles a longer-legged and more delicate green (T. ochropus) or solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria) with a short fine bill, brown back and longer yellowish legs. It differs from the first of those species in a smaller and less contrasting white rump patch, while the solitary sandpiper has no white rump patch at all This bird is usually found on freshwater during migration and wintering. They forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud, and mainly eat insects and similar small prey. T. glareola nests on the ground or uses an abandoned old tree nest of another bird, such as the fieldfare (Turdus pilaris). Four pale green eggs are laid between March and May. The wood sandpiper is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Widespread, it is considered a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN.[INFO: WIKIPEDIA]