OTHER NAMES: N/A
Latin Etymology: Tringa (bird named by Aristotle) inornata ("plain")
Non-breeding Prairie Willet (Tringa inornata) at Hayward, California - September 2022
Featured Subspecies: N/A
Weight: 200-330g/kg / Length: 33-41cm / Wingspan: 70cm
NO UK STATUS / IUCN Red List: Least Concern
The prairie willet is in some ways a slightly confusing looking bird to someone used to British birding - it's most closely related to the shanks but is substantially more larger, being much more on a scale with godwits, a feature to which its only visible in flight black and white wing barring also suggests. To me it's call also registered as more like an Oystercatcher than anything else. They proved to be one of the more common large waders we saw. Up until 2026, it was considered that there was one species of willet - but it has now been split into prairie willet and saltmarsh willet.
Related Species:
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
SUBSPECIES: N/A
- Sighting Locations -
Breeds in North West of the Lower 48 and the North East Coast, Wintering along the coast
- CALIFORNIA 2022 TRIP: Seen at Hayward, Berkeley and Monterey
Further Notes: BirdForum Opus, IUCN Red List, RSPB, Wikipedia, Xeno-canto
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