OTHER NAMES: N/A
Latin Etymology: Tringa (bird named by Aristotle) incana ("light grey")
Non-breeding Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana) at Big Sur, California - September 2022
Featured Subspecies: N/A
Weight: 110g / Length: 28cm / Wingspan: 66cm
NO UK STATUS / IUCN Red List: Least Concern
The Wandering Tattler is in many ways a fairly understated grey-brown wader that favours rocky shorelines, but it's migratory habits are fairly spectacular. While most North American Waders primarily travel continentally, this species seems to take the Pacific itself as Wintering grounds, and can be found not only on the Californian Coast, but also on many Pacific islands down around to the North East coast of Australia!
Related Species:
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
SUBSPECIES: none - monotypic
- Sighting Locations -
Breeds in Alaska, Winters in California and Hawai'i
- CALIFORNIA 2022 TRIP: Seen at Big Sur
Further Notes: BirdForum Opus, IUCN Red List, RSPB, Wikipedia, Xeno-canto
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