#0583 · 🐦 birds

Ruddy Turnstone

🇳🇱 Steenloper ·Arenaria interpres

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The ruddy turnstone ( Arenaria interpres ) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria . The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name arenaria derives from arenarius , "inhabiting sand, from arena , "sand". The specific interpres means "messenger"; when visiting Gotland in 1741, Linnaeus thought that the Swedish word Tolk "interpreter" applied to this species, but in the local dialect the word means "legs" and is used for the redshank.

base stats

NL sightings 1,254iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 75,420iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).