Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1402 🐦

🦉 The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

📚 Tringa (Greek) thrush-sized water bird in Aristotle's texts
📚 glareola lat.: glarea pebbles, pebbler; glareola reduce. by glarea

I met this sandpiper on the bank of the river. To be more precise, in a place where a small fast-flowing river flows into a large one.

This Pinocchio walked on the pebbles and was looking for something to profit from.

This Pinocchio walked on the pebbles and was looking for something to profit from. Among small stones and wet mud, these birds look for aquatic insects, small mollusks, and in shallow water they can eat small fish.