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Birds
Any feathered vertebrate.
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Grey-tailed Tattler
Animals; Birds
The Grey-tailed Tattler, Tringa brevipes (formerly Heteroscelus brevipes), is a small shorebird. Its breeding habitat is stony riverbeds in northeast Siberia.
Wood Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.
Lesser Yellowlegs
Animals; Birds
The Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a medium-sized shorebird similar in appearance to the larger Greater Yellowlegs. Their breeding habitat is clearings near ponds in the boreal forest region ...
Common Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper (A. Macularia), make up the genus Actitis. The Common Sandpiper ...
Terek Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) is a small migratory Palearctic wader species, the only member of the genus Xenus. This bird breeds near water in the taiga from Finland through northern Siberia ...
Nordmann's Greenshank
Animals; Birds
The Spotted Greenshank or Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. The Spotted Greenshank breeds in eastern Russia along the ...
Green Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Green Sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. It represents an ancient lineage of the genus Tringa; is only close living relative is the Solitary Sandpiper. It ...
