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Grey-tailed Tattler

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Tringa brevipes

Heteroscelus brevipes

Photo by anonymous_guy
Location: Lamma Island, Hong Kong

1 Identification
2 Distribution
3 Taxonomy
4 Habitat
5 Behaviour
6 References
7 External Links

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Breeds in Eurasia; winters in Malay Peninsula and Australasia.

[edit] Taxonomy

This species has been placed in the genus Heteroscelus together with Wandering Tattler, but Clements¹ and Sibley & Monroe² place it in Tringa.

This species is monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

Clements JF. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
Sibley CG & Monroe BL. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.