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Tringinae

(Subfamily)

Overview

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A Sub-family in the Kingdom Animalia.

Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Tringinae is a member of the Family Scolopacidae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Tringinae:

The Subfamily Tringinae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Actitis

Actitis is a small genus of waders, comprising just two very similar bird species: [more]

Aechmorhynchus

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Bartramia

Bartramia may refer to either of two genera: [more]

Catoptrophorus

The Willet (Tringa semipalmata), formerly in the monotypic genus Catoptrophorus as Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, is a large shorebird in the sandpiper family. It is a good-sized and stout scolopacid, the largest of the shanks. Its closest relative is the Lesser Yellowlegs, a much smaller bird with a very different appearance apart from the fine, clear, and dense pattern of the neck, which both species show in breeding plumage. [more]

Heteroscelus

The tattlers are the two very similar bird species in the shorebird genus Tringa. They formerly had their own genus, Heteroscelus. The old genus name means "different leg" in Greek, referring to the leg scales that differentiate the tattlers from their close relatives, the shanks. [more]

Limosa

The godwits are a group of large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly migratory waders of the bird genus Limosa. Their long, bills allow them to probe deeply in the sand for aquatic worms and molluscs. They frequent tidal shorelines, breeding in northern climates in summer and migrating south in winter. In their winter range, they flock together where food is plentiful. A female Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest non-stop flight for a land bird. [more]

Micropalama

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[1] [more]

Numenius

Numenius can refer to: [more]

Prosobonia

The two to four species of Polynesian sandpipers, the only members of the genus Prosobonia, are small wading birds confined to remote Pacific islands of French Polynesia. Only one species now exists, and it is rare and little known. This bird is sometimes separated in the genus Aechmorhynchus, restricting the genus to the extinct southern forms. [more]

Steganopus

The Wilson's Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering around the central Andes in South America. They are passage migrants through Central America around March/April and again during September/October. The species is a rare vagrant to western Europe. [more]

Tringa

Tringa is a genus of waders, containing the shanks and tattlers. They are mainly freshwater birds, often with brightly colored legs as reflected in the English names of six species, as well as the 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 thrushes. [more]

Xenus

The Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) is a small migratory Palearctic wader species, the only member of the genus Xenus. [more]

More info about the Genus Xenus may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=22116

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 20:12:23