Grey-tailed Tattler
Tringa brevipes(Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
English (US) Gray-tailed Tattler
UK name: Grey-tailed Tattler
The Grey-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds montane tundra of Krasnoyarsk (west-central Siberia) and Yana River eastward to Kamchatka (eastern Siberia); winters muddy to sandy Pacific coasts from Malay Peninsula eastward through Micronesia and western Polynesia and southward to northern AustraliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tringa brevipes
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Gray-tailed Tattler
- English (UK)
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Totanus brevipes
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
- Type locality
- No locality given; the type is from Timor.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 6 p.410
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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