← Back

Solitary Sandpiper

Tringa solitaria

Classification

Class
Aves

The solitary sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) is a small shorebird. The genus name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific solitaria is Latin for "solitary" from solus, "alone".

Distribution

(c) gabbieb, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 443,500Canada · 79,848Brazil · 8,933Mexico · 7,747Argentina · 4,356Netherlands · 2,032Paraguay · 1,949Peru · 1,587Bolivia · 1,536United Kingdom · 1,263France · 1,261Cuba · 1,056Uruguay · 418Chile · 79Portugal · 23Ireland · 3