Solitary sandpiper

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Solitary sandpiper

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
Species:
T. solitaria
Binomial name
Tringa solitaria
Wilson, 1813
Synonyms

Helodromas solitarius

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".[2]

Description

This species measures 18–23 cm (7.1–9.1 in) long, with a wingspan up to 50 cm (20 in) and a body mass of 31–65 g (1.1–2.3 oz).

scolopacids
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Distribution and habitat

It breeds in woodlands across Alaska and Canada. It is a migratory bird, wintering in Central and South America, especially in the Amazon River basin, and the Caribbean. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, and goes there in the summer–autumn period.

Subspecies

The solitary sandpiper is split into two subspecies:

Hunting behaviour

Behaviour

As its name indicates, the solitary sandpiper is not a gregarious species, usually seen alone during migration, although sometimes small numbers congregate in suitable feeding areas. The solitary sandpiper is very much a bird of fresh water, and is often found in sites, such as ditches, too restricted for other waders, which tend to like a clear all-round view.

Breeding

The sandpiper lays a clutch of 3–5 eggs in abandoned tree nests of songbird species, such as those of thrushes. The young birds are encouraged to drop to the ground soon after hatching.[6]

Feeding

Food is small

molluscs (such as snails extracted from their shells),[7] sometimes small frogs (primarily as tadpoles),[8]
picked off the mud as the bird works steadily around the edges of its chosen pond.

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22693239A130186218.en
    . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  3. ^ Solitary sandpiper at All about birds
  4. ISBN 978-0-8493-4258-5
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  5. ISSN 0010-5422
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  6. ^ Federation of Alberta Naturalists. (1992) Glen P. Semenchuk (ed.). The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta. Edmonton, AB:Federation of Alberta Naturalists.
  7. ^ "Tringa solitaria (Solitary sandpiper)". Animal Diversity Web.
  8. ^ "Tringa solitaria (Solitary sandpiper)". Animal Diversity Web.

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