Grey-tailed tattler

The grey-tailed tattler or Polynesian tattler,[2] Tringa 2 Behaviour

brevipes (formerly Heteroscelus brevipes: Pereira &
Baker, 2005; Banks et al., 2006), is a small, foraging Its breeding habitat is stony riverbeds in northeast Siberia.
shorebird in the genus Tringa, and breeds in northeast It nests on the ground, but these birds will perch in trees.
Siberia. After breeding, they migrate to an area from They sometimes use old nests of other birds as well.
southeast Asia to Australia.
Grey-tailed tattlers are strongly migratory and winter on
muddy and sandy coasts from southeast Asia to Australia.
They are very rare vagrants to western North America
and western Europe. These are not particularly gregarious birds and are seldom seen in large ocks except at
1 Description
roosts.
These birds forage on the ground or water, picking up
food by sight. They eat insects, crustaceans and other
invertebrates.

The grey-tailed tattler is closely related to its North American counterpart, the wandering tattler (T. incana) and
is dicult to distinguish from that species. Both tattlers are unique among the species of Tringa for having
unpatterned, greyish wings and back, and a scaly breast
pattern extending more or less onto the belly in breeding plumage, in which both also have a rather prominent
supercilium.

3 Conservation status
3.1 Australia

These birds resemble common redshanks in shape and

size. The upper parts, underwings, face and neck are Grey-tailed tattlers are not listed as threatened on
grey, and the belly is white. They have short yellowish the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity
legs and a bill with a pale base and dark tip. There is a Conservation Act 1999.
weak supercilium.
They are very similar to their American counterpart, and 3.2 State of Victoria, Australia
dierentiation depends on details like the length of the
nasal groove and scaling on the tarsus. The best distinc The grey-tailed tattler is listed as threatened on the
tion is the call; grey-tailed has a disyllabic whistle, and
Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988).
wandering a rippling trill.
Under this Act, an Action Statement for the recovery
and future management of this species has not been
prepared.
On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate
fauna in Victoria, the grey-tailed tattler is listed as
critically endangered.[3]

4 References
[1] BirdLife International (2014). "Tringa brevipes". IUCN
Red List of Threatened Species.
Version 2014.3.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
[2] Tringa brevipes on Avibase
A grey-tailed tattler feeding on the shoreline in Redclie, SE
Queensland, Australia

[3] Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment

(2007). Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in
Victoria 2007. East Melbourne, Victoria: Department

of Sustainability and Environment. p. 15. ISBN 978-174208-039-0.

Further reading
Banks, Richard C.; Cicero, Carla; Dunn, Jon L.;
Kratter, Andrew W.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Remsen, J. V. Jr.; Rising, James D. & Stotz, Douglas F.
(2006): Forty-seventh Supplement to the American
Ornithologists Union Check-list of North American
Birds. Auk 123(3): 926936. DOI: 10.1642/00048038(2006)123[926:FSTTAO]2.0.CO;2 PDF fulltext
Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater ISBN
0-7099-2034-2
Hayman, Peter; Marchant, John & Prater, Tony
(1986): Shorebirds: an identication guide to the
waders of the world. Houghton Miin, Boston.
ISBN 0-395-60237-8
Pereira, Srgio Luiz & Baker, Alan J. (2005):
Multiple Gene Evidence for Parallel Evolution
and Retention of Ancestral Morphological States
in the Shanks (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).
Condor 107(3): 514526. DOI: 10.1650/00105422(2005)107[0514:MGEFPE]2.0.CO;2 HTML
abstract

External links
Audio recordings of Grey-tailed tattler on Xenocanto.

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