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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 .
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 Wandering tattler: Tringa incana (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 59 Marsh sandpiper: Tringa stagnatilis (Bechstein, 1803) 60 Wood sandpiper
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) Spotted redshank, Tringa erythropus; Greater yellowlegs ...
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 spotted redshank (T. erythropus), which breeds in the Arctic, has a longer bill and legs; it is almost entirely black in breeding plumage and very pale in winter. It is not a particularly close relative of the common redshank, but rather belongs to a high- latitude lineage of largish shanks.