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==Taxonomy== The [[genus]] ''Tringa'' was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=148 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727055 }}</ref> The name ''Tringa'' is the [[Neo-Latin]] name given to the [[green sandpiper]] by the Italian naturalist [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]] in 1603 based on [[Ancient Greek]] ''trungas'', a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by [[Aristotle]].<ref name=job>{{cite book |last=Jobling |first=James A |year=2010|title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm |location=London |isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n390 390]}}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | last=Aldrovandi| first=Ulisse | author-link=Ulisse Aldrovandi | year=1603 | title=Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi ac medici Bononiensis historiam naturalem in gymnasio Bononiensi profitentis, Ornithologiae | volume=3 | language=Latin | location=Bononiae (Bologna, Italy) | publisher=Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem | pages=480–483, Lib. 20 Cap. 54 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=by5gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA480 }}<!--BHL have a 1637 edition with similar pagination--></ref><!--Vol 1 published in 1599 but Vol 3 in 1603--> The [[type species]] is the [[green sandpiper]] (''Tringa ochropus'').<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=264 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483077 }}</ref> ===Species=== The genus contains 13 species.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Sandpipers, snipes, coursers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sandpipers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=17 August 2021 }}</ref> {{Species table |genus= Tringa |authority-name=[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] |authority-year=[[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]] |species-count=thirteen|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}} {{Species table/row |name= [[Green sandpiper]] |binomial=[[Tringa ochropus]] |image=File:Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) (49138263006).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes |range= southern Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and tropical Africa. |range-image=File:TringaOchropusIUCNver2019-2.png |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name= [[Solitary sandpiper]] |binomial=[[Tringa solitaria]] |image=File:Solitary Sandpiper - Flickr - Becky Matsubara.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Wilson |authority-year=1813 |authority-not-original=yes |range= across Alaska and Canada. wintering in Central and South America, especially in the Amazon River basin, and the Caribbean. I |range-image=File:Tringa solitaria map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on |''T. s. cinnamomea'', <small>([[William Brewster (ornithologist)|Brewster]], 1890)</small> |''T. s. solitaria'', <small>([[Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)|Wilson]], 1813)</small> }} }} {{Species table/row |name=[[Grey-tailed tattler]] |binomial=[[Tringa brevipes]] |image=File:Kiashi-shigi.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1816 |authority-not-original=yes |range= southeast Asia to Australia. |range-image= |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= NT |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name= [[Wandering tattler]] |binomial=[[Tringa incana]] |image=File:Wandering_Tattler_(2018).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Gmelin, JF |authority-year=1789 |authority-not-original=yes |range= far-eastern Russia, Alaska, portions of the California coast and northwestern Canada. |range-image=File:Tringa incana map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name= [[Spotted redshank]]|binomial=[[Tringa erythropus]] |image=File:Dunkler Wasserlaeufer1.JPG|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Pallas |authority-year=1764 |authority-not-original=yes |range= the Arctic across much of the Palearctic, from Lapland in the west to Chukotskaya in the east |range-image=File:TringaErythropusIUCN.png |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name=[[Greater yellowlegs]] |binomial=[[Tringa melanoleuca]] |image=File:Greater yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) foraging at Huntley Meadows, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.png|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Gmelin, JF |authority-year=1789 |authority-not-original=yes |range= Canada and Alaska.Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, the Caribbean, and south to South America. |range-image=File:Tringa melanoleuca map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= NT |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name=[[Common greenshank]] |binomial=[[Tringa nebularia]] |image=File:Common Greenshank - chillika lake.jpeg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Gunnerus|authority-year= 1767 |authority-not-original=yes |range= northern Scotland eastwards across northern Europe and east across the Palearctic |range-image=File:TringaNebulariaIUCNver2018 2.png |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name=[[Willet]] |binomial=[[Tringa semipalmata]] |image=File:W6501-crop.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Gmelin, JF|authority-year= 1789 |authority-not-original=yes |range= |range-image=File:Tringa semipalmata map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on | ''T. s. semipalmata'' <small>eastern willet</small> | ''T. s. inornata'' <small>western willet</small> }} }} {{Species table/row |name= [[Lesser yellowlegs]]|binomial=[[Tringa flavipes]] |image=File:Lesser yellowlegs bunche beach (31791842132).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Gmelin, JF |authority-year=1789 |authority-not-original=yes |range= Gulf coast of the United States, the Caribbean, and south to South America |range-image=File:Tringa flavipes map.svg |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= VU |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name= [[Nordmann's greenshank]]|binomial=[[Tringa guttifer]] |image=File:Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer by Raju Kasambe DSCN3885 03.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Nordmann|authority-year= 1835 |authority-not-original=yes |range= eastern Russia along the south-western and northern coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk and on Sakhalin Island. South Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan on passage, and in Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia |range-image= |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= EN |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name=[[Marsh sandpiper]] |binomial=[[Tringa stagnatilis]] |image=File:Marsh sandpiper 20.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Bechstein|authority-year= 1803 |authority-not-original=yes |range= Africa and India, and some migrating to Southeast Asia and Australia. T |range-image=File:TringaStagnatilisIUCNver2018 2.png |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/row |name= [[Common redshank]]|binomial=[[Tringa totanus]] |image=|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes |range= across temperate Eurasia. |range-image=File:TringaTotanusIUCN2019 2.png |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Six subspecies |bullets=on | ''T. t. robusta'' ([[Eiler Lehn Schiøler|Schiøler]], 1919) | ''T. t. totanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) | ''T. t. ussuriensis'' [[Sergei Buturlin|Buturlin]], 1934 | ''T. t. terrignotae'' [[Richard Meinertzhagen|Meinertzhagen, R.]] & [[Annie Meinertzhagen|Meinertzhagen, A.]], 1926 | ''T. t. craggi'' Hale, 1971 | ''T. t. eurhina'' ([[Harry C. Oberholser|Oberholser]], 1900) }} }} {{Species table/row |name=[[Wood sandpiper]] |binomial=[[Tringa glareola]] |image=File:Tringa glareola a2.JPG|image-size=180px |image-alt= |authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original= |range= subarctic wetlands, from the Scottish Highlands in the west, east across Eurasia and the Palearctic. Africa, South Asia (particularly India) and Australia. |range-image= |range-image-size=180px |size= |habitat= |hunting= |iucn-status= LC |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/end}}
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