磯鷸屬,學名Actitis,是鷸科的一屬,小型涉禽,包括兩種:
兩種都是候鳥,有短而黃的腿,中等大小的喙。一般單獨活動。在地面上築巢,棲息地靠近淡水,並在水中或地面上覓食,有時也能捕捉空中飛行的昆蟲。它們的食物包括昆蟲、甲殼類等無脊椎動物。
參考
- 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 (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館)
- 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 (頁面存檔備份,存於互聯網檔案館) Supplementary Material Archive.is的存檔,存檔日期2013-08-02
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