Tringa

Eastern Willet, Tringa s. semipalmata synonym; Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, formerly; Symphemia semipalmata, protonym; Scolopax semipalmata, also known as the semipalmated tattler or simply as the willet, photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, USA.

Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata 2011

Response: This is an adult eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata, which has just arrived on its breeding grounds.

Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata 2011

Other uncommon species are golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, redlegged kittiwake Rissa brevirostris (VU), and spotted greenshank Tringa guttifer (EN).

Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation 2008

Significant populations of Palaearctic birds winter here, with several thousand wigeon (Anas penelope) and shovelers (Anas clypeata) observed in the Bale Mountains, along with waders such as ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) and greenshanks (Tringa nebularia).

Ethiopian montane moorlands 2008

Birds with restricted range include the spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus), Jananese Robin (Erithacus akahige), Bull-headed Strike (Lanius bucephalus), and the Forest Wagtail (Motacilla lutea).

South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests 2008

The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds.

Atlantic coastal desert 2008

(_Tringa maritima_, Brünn.), &c., of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, but along with these are found here many peculiar species, for instance the

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Of birds we thus saw only snow-buntings, which bred among the stone heaps both on the mainland and on the islands, a covey of ptarmigan, a large number of birds, principally species of Tringa and Phalaropus, but not further determined, eiders, black guillemots and burgomasters in limited numbers, and long-tailed ducks and loons in somewhat greater abundance.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

_Calidris arenaria_ and a Tringa or two ran about restlessly seeking their food.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Further, two species of waders, _Tringa maritima_ and

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866