wandering tattler (Tringa incana) Wandering Tattler Tringa incana, Pillar Point, California
Date 23 December 2009, 10:51
Source Wandering Tattler
Author Jason Crotty https://www.flickr.com/people/46789814@N05
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tringa_incana,_Pillar_Point,_California_3.jpg
The wandering tattler (Tringa incana) (formerly Heteroscelus incanus), is a medium-sized wading bird. It is similar in appearance to the closely related gray-tailed tattler, T. brevipes. The tattlers are unique among the species of Tringa for having unpatterned, greyish wings and backs, and a scaly breast pattern extending more or less onto the belly in breeding plumage, in which both also have a rather prominent supercilium.
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
Species: Tringa incana (Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms:
Heteractitis incanus
Heteroscelus incanus
