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The solitary sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) is a small shorebird. 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 solitaria is Latin for "solitary" from solus, "alone". [2]
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Green sandpiper. Tringa ochropus (Linnaeus, 1758) southern Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and tropical Africa. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Solitary sandpiper. Tringa solitaria (Wilson, 1813)
Terek sandpiper: Xenus cinereus (Güldenstädt, 1775) 53 Common sandpiper: Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus, 1758) 54 Spotted sandpiper: Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) 55 Green sandpiper: Tringa ochropus Linnaeus, 1758: 56 Solitary sandpiper: Tringa solitaria Wilson, A, 1813: 57 Grey-tailed tattler: Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816) 58 ...
Common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos (of Eurasia) Spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius (of North America) Tringa Linnaeus, 1758: Green sandpiper, Tringa ochropus; Solitary sandpiper, Tringa solitaria; Grey-tailed tattler, Tringa brevipes (formerly Heteroscelus brevipes) Wandering tattler, Tringa incana (formerly Heteroscelus incanus)
Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy ... Solitary sandpiper, ...
The common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species , the spotted sandpiper ( A. macularia ), make up the genus Actitis . They are parapatric and replace each other geographically; stray birds of either species may settle down with breeders of the other and hybridize .
The green sandpiper was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Tringa ochropus. [3] 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 ...
The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader belonging to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. A Eurasian species , it is the smallest of the shanks , a genus of mid-sized, long-legged waders that largely inhabit freshwater and wetland environments, as opposed to the maritime or coastal habitats of other, similar species.