Grey-tailed tattler

Grey-tailed tattler
Breeding plumage
Non-breeding plumage
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
Species:
T. brevipes
Binomial name
Tringa brevipes
(Vieillot, 1816)
Synonyms[2]

Heteroscelus brevipes
Heterosceles brevipes
Heteractitis brevipes

The grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes, formerly Heteroscelus brevipes[3][4]), also known as the Siberian tattler or Polynesian tattler,[2] is a small shorebird in the genus Tringa. The English name for the tattlers refers to their noisy call.[5] 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".[6]

This tattler breeds in northeast Siberia. After breeding, they migrate to an area from southeast Asia to Australia.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tringa brevipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22693289A93394897. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22693289A93394897.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tringa brevipes". Avibase.
  3. ^ Banks, Richard C.; Cicero, Carla; Dunn, Jon L.; Kratter, Andrew W.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Remsen, J. V. Jr.; Rising, James D. & Stotz, Douglas F. (2006): Forty-seventh Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 123(3): 926–936. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2006)123[926:FSTTAO]2.0.CO;2
  4. ^ *Pereira, Sérgio Luiz & Baker, Alan J. (2005): Multiple Gene Evidence for Parallel Evolution and Retention of Ancestral Morphological States in the Shanks (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae). Condor 107(3): 514–526. DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2005)107[0514:MGEFPE]2.0.CO;2
  5. ^ "Tattler". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  6. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 77, 390. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.