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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]
The spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius) is a small shorebird. Together with its sister species the common sandpiper ( A. hypoleucos ), it makes up the genus Actitis . They replace each other geographically; stray birds may settle down with breeders of the other species and hybridize .
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 ...
Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes.Most of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.
The common sandpiper was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Tringa hypoleucos. [2] The species is now placed together with the spotted sandpiper in the genus Actitis that was introduced in 1811 by the German zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger.
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The green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. The green sandpiper represents an ancient lineage of the genus Tringa; its only close living relative is the solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria). They both have brown wings with little light dots and a delicate but contrasting neck and chest pattern.
The Nordmann's greenshank is a medium-sized sandpiper, at 29–32 cm (11–13 in) long, with a slightly upturned, bicoloured bill, and relatively short yellow legs.. Breeding adults are boldly marked, with whitish spots and spangling on black upperside; heavily streaked head and upper neck; broad, blackish, crescentic spots on lower neck and breast; and darker