Editing Tringa (section)

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{For|the commune of Mali|Tringa, Mali}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Common Greenshank & Common Redshank.jpg
| image_caption = [[Common greenshank]] (''Tringa nebularia'') and [[common redshank]] (''Tringa totanus'') at Cuckmere Haven, Sussex, England
| taxon = Tringa
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
| type_species = ''Tringa ochropus'' ([[green sandpiper]])
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
13, see text
| synonyms = *''Catatrophorus'' <small>Jardine, 1849 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Catoptophorus'' <small>Des Murs, 1854 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Catoptrophonus'' <small>Gray, 1871 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Catoptrophorus'' <small>Bonaparte, 1827</small>
* ''Catorthrophorus'' <small>Brehm, 1855 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Catroptophorus'' <small>Giebel, 1877 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Helodromas''
* ''Heteroscelus'' <small>Baird, 1858</small>
* ''Pseudototanus''
* ''Rhyacophilus'' <small>Kaup, 1829</small>
* ''Rhyacophorus'' <small>Bonaparte, 1842 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Rhyacophylus'' <small>Lillo, 1905 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Rhynchophilus'' <small>Bonaparte, 1856 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Rhyncophilus'' <small>Des Murs, 1854 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Rhyocophilus'' <small>Bonaparte, 1854 (unjustified emendation)</small>
* ''Totanus'' <small>Bechstein, 1803</small>
* ''Trynga'' <small>Möhring, 1758 ([[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature|suppressed]])</small>
}}

'''''Tringa''''' is a [[genus]] of [[wader]]s, containing the '''shanks''' and '''[[Tattler (bird)|tattlers]]'''. The genus name ''Tringa'' is the [[Neo-Latin]] name given to the [[green sandpiper]] by the Italian naturalist [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]] in 1599. They are mainly freshwater birds, often with brightly coloured legs as reflected in the English names of six species, as well as the [[specific name (zoology)|specific names]] of two of these and the [[green sandpiper]]. They are typically associated with northern hemisphere temperate regions for breeding. Some of this group—notably the green sandpiper—nest in trees, using the old nests of other birds, usually [[Thrush (bird)|thrushes]].

The [[willet]] and the tattlers have been found to belong in ''Tringa''; these genus changes were formally adopted by the [[American Ornithologists' Union]] in 2006.<ref>Pereira & Baker (2005), Banks ''et al.'' (2006)</ref>

The present genus in the old, more limited sense was even further subdivided into ''Tringa'' proper and ''[[Totanus]]'', either as [[subgenera]] or as full genera. The available [[DNA sequence]] data suggests however that neither of these is [[monophyletic]] and that the latter simply lumps together a number of more or less closely related [[apomorph]]ic species. Therefore, it seems unwarranted to recognize ''Totanus'' even as a subgenus for the time being.<ref>Ballmann (1969), Pereira & Baker (2005)</ref>