Green Sandpiper
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Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus Linnaeus
Although Brewer (1878) quotes a letter to the effect that a skin sent to London, England, was from a bird taken in Halifax, no details are given on date or place of collection.
Of other Totaninae,one of the most remarkable is that to which the inappropriate name of Green Sandpiper has been assigned, the Totanus or Helodromas ochropus of ornithologists, ...
The Solitary Sandpiper is the New World equivalent of the Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus).
Its non-breeding plumage is similar to its breeding plumage but a bit paler with the throat almost white and with smaller spots on the upperparts.
Spotted Sandpiper has a white wing stripe visible in flight and a dark back without white spots. Two European species, the Green Sandpiper and the Wood Sandpiper are easily separated by tail pattern, underwing color and head pattern.
Sandpiper, Solitary Tringa solitaria Found: The Americas
Photographed by Dick Daniels in: 1, 2) New Hampshire 3) North Carolina
Similar to the green sandpiper ...
 See also: Sandpiper, Phalarope, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Shorebird
  
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