#1155 · 🐦 birds

Grey-tailed Tattler

🇳🇱 Siberische Grijze Ruiter ·Tringa brevipes

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The grey-tailed tattler or Polynesian tattler , Tringa brevipes (formerly Heteroscelus brevipes ) is a small, foraging shorebird in the genus Tringa . The English name for the tattlers refers to their noisy call. The genus name Tringa is the New 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 brevipes is from Latin brevis , "short", and pes , "foot".

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,457iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
6,457 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 (210 years ago).