The common sandpiper is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the spotted sandpiper, make up the genus Actitis. They are parapatric and replace each other geographically
Actitis hypoleucos Laem Pak Bia
Wintering bird foraging matakakoni-style in Puri
The green sandpiper is a small wader of the Old World.
Common sandpiper
…of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize. Hybridization has also been reported between the common sandpiper and the green sandpiper, a member of the closely related genus Tringa. The common sandpiper was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth…
Green Sandpiper, wading, Bavaria
Wintering adult near Hodal, Faridabad district, Haryana, India