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Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus, 1767) 
AphiaID: 158968

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Scolopacidae (Family) > Tringa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tringa Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Gunnerus, J.E. (1767). Beskrifning på trenne Norrska Sjö-Kråk, Sjö-Pungar kallade. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 28: 114-124 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details]

basis of record: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian qyrylyku i madh  [details]
Bulgarian Голям зеленоног водобегач  [details]
Danish hvidklire  [details]
Dutch groenpootruiter  [details]
English common greenshank  [details]
English greenshank  [details]
French chevalier aboyeur  [details]
German Grünschenkel  [details]
Hebrew ביצנית ירוקת-רגל  [details]
Italian pantana  [details]
Lithuanian žaliakojis tulikas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Πρασινοσκέλης  [details]
Norwegian gluttsnipe  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål gluttsnipe  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk gluttsnipe  [details]
Polish brodziec kwokacz  [details]
Polish kwokacz  [details]
Romanian fluierarul cu picioare verzi  [details]
Russian большой улит  [details]
Russian речной кулик  [details]
Russian светлый кулик (устар.)  [details]
Scottish Gaelic laidhrín glas  [details]
Slovenian zelenonogi martinec  [details]
Spanish archibebe claro  [details]
Swedish gluttsnäppa  [details]
Turkish yeşilbacak  [details]
Ukrainian Коловодник великий  [details]
Welsh pibydd coeswyrdd  [details]
Environment marine, fresh
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti [details]
Eritrea [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Length: 30-36 cm. Plumage: above mottled grey; below white with some streaking on sides of neck and chest; tail barred black; long white wedge between wings apparent in flight; head mottled grey with whitish face and dark line from base of bill to eye; in breeding bird upperparts brown with heavy streaking and barring, below with more streaking on breast and neck; head more heavily streaked. Immature buffier below. Bare parts: iris brown; bill black with greenish or bluish grey base, slightly upcurved; feet and legs greenish to yellowish grey. Habitat: seashores, exposed coral, mudflats, estuaries, inland waters. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details]

Distribution: accidental shore bird from Eurasia, reported Nova Scotia [details]
Image 
Groenpootruiter
Groenpootruiter
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:39:46
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158968
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus, 1767). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158968 on 2013-05-18
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