Study of the Wood Sandpiper at Prime Hook NWR

A Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) was at the Broadkill Beach impoundment today which is part of Prime Hook NWR in Delaware. This rare bird was first found and reported last week by Sharon Lynn of Rehoboth Beach, DE. It breeds across northern Eurasia, rarely east  to the western Aleutian islands. It winters in sub-Saharan Africa,  Southeast Asia, and northern Australasia. The Wood Sandpiper migrants throughout the Old World,  regularly to western Alaska. It vagrants to other parts of North America, including Yukon, British Columbia, Newfoundland, and New York, with a few records in Barbados. It has only been seen on the East coast three times in the past ninety years...the last time in 1990 in Rye, New York. It is related to the Yellowlegs and the Solitary Sandpiper. It bobs its tail much like the Spotted Sandpiper.

Please click on the thumbnails or the captions to see a larger image...thanks!

  Revised May 16th, 2008   Please click here to go back to Bird Webpage Index

© Howard B. Eskin 2008                              Please email your comments to hbeskin@voicenet.com