Grey-tailed Tattler

Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816)

Grey-tailed Tattler, Tringa brevipes, breeds in the subarctic tundra of north-central and north-east Palearctic regions, including montane areas of western Siberia and country from the Yana River to the Anadyr Peninsula and Kamchatka. Outside the breeding season it moves to eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific islands, using mainly muddy to sandy coasts across the Malay Peninsula, the Indonesian Archipelago, New Guinea, Australia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Fiji and Tuvalu. It is a shorebird in the sandpiper family, and its breeding grounds are in northeast Siberia.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae — Sandpipers, Snipes

Breeding range

Palearctic: (mainly) subarctic tundra of nc, ne Palearctic: montane Krasnoyarsk (wc Siberia) and Yana River to Anadyr Pen. and Kamchatka (ec, e Siberia)

Nonbreeding range

e IO and w PO islands : subtropical to tropical mainly muddy to sandy Pacific coasts: Malay Pen., Indonesian Arch., New Guinea region, w, n, e Australia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Fiji and Tuvalu (w Polynesia)