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Grey-tailed Tattler
Tringa brevipes(Vieillot, 1816)
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The grey-tailed tattler, also known as the Siberian tattler or Polynesian tattler, is a small shorebird in the genus Tringa. The English name for the tattlers refers to their noisy call. The genus name Tringa is the Neo-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 brevipes is from Latin brevis, "short", and pes, "foot".
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- (mainly) subarctic tundra of north-central and north-east Palearctic: montane Krasnoyarsk (west-central Siberia) and Yana River to Anadyr Pen. and Kamchatka (east-central and east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- East IO and west PO islands : subtropical to tropical mainly muddy to sandy Pacific coasts: Malay Pen., Indonesian Arch., New Guinea region, west, north and east Australia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Fiji and Tuvalu (west Polynesia)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
2 photos
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