矶鹬属,学名Actitis,是鹬科的一属,小型涉禽,包括两种:
两种都是候鸟,有短而黄的腿,中等大小的喙。一般单独活动。在地面上筑巢,栖息地靠近淡水,并在水中或地面上觅食,有时也能捕捉空中飞行的昆虫。它们的食物包括昆虫、甲壳类等无脊椎动物。
参考
- 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 HTML abstract (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Thomas, Gavin H.; Wills, Matthew A. & Székely, Tamás (2004): A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny. BMC Evol. Biol. 4: 28. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-28 PDF fulltext (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Supplementary Material Archive.is的存档,存档日期2013-08-02
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