What is "wood sandpiper"

n. A Eurasian species of small wader birds, ''Tringa glareola'', that is the smallest of the shanks.

The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific '' glareola'' is from Latin glarea, " gravel".