Nordmann's Greenshank
Tringa guttifer(Nordmann, AD, 1835)
English (US) Nordmann's Greenshank
The Nordmann's Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) 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 coastal larch forest of western and southern coastal Sea of Okhotsk, Tatar Strait (west of Sakhalin), and Sakhalin (eastern Siberia); winters coastal mudflats and saltpans of southeastern Bangladesh, southern Myanmar, southern Thailand, Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and southwestern BorneoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tringa guttifer
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Nordmann's Greenshank
- Described by
- (Nordmann, AD, 1835)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Totanus guttifer
- Described by
- (Nordmann, AD, 1835)
- Type locality
- Okhotsk.
- Original description
- Reise um die Erde durch Nord-Asien und die beiden Oceane, in den Jahren 1828, 1829 und 1830 ausgeführt. Naturhistorischer Atlas: Verzeichniss von Thieren und Pflanzen, welche auf einer Reise um die Erde gesammelt wurden p.17
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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