Tringa glareola  Wood Sandpiper  Bosruiter
Wood Sandpiper
Vaalwater, Mar 2021

A non-breeding summer visitor from the Palearctic. Scarce. Single birds occur widely but sparsely across the Waterberg along rivers and on the margins of dams (recorded in 21% of the Waterberg pentads); it is the most frequently encountered and the most numerous of the migrant waders.
Wood Sandpiper Waterberg distribution
Wood Sandpiper
Vaalwater, Apr 2019
Wood Sandpiper on the left, Ruff on the right

Wood Sandpiper
Vaalwater, Nov 2018
Wood Sandpiper
Komanande, Jan 2018

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