Wandering Tattler
Tringa incana
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The wandering tattler (Tringa incana) is a medium-sized shorebird, similar in appearance to the closely related gray-tailed tattler (T. brevipes). The tattlers are unique among the species of Tringa for having unpatterned, greyish wings and backs, and a scaly breast pattern extending more or less onto the belly in breeding plumage, in which both also have a rather prominent supercilium.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds montane tundra from Chukotka (northeastern Siberia) through Alaskan mainland (except far north) to northwestern Canada; winters mainly rocky Pacific coasts from eastern Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, isolated eastern Pacific islands, and southwestern Canada to Ecuador.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Argentina
- Australia
- Canada
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Russia
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- United States
- Vanuatu
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Wandering tattler
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
