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Grey-tailed tattler
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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]
Grey-tailed tattler | |
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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 |
This tattler breeds in northeast Siberia. After breeding, they migrate to an area from southeast Asia to Australia.