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Gray-tailed Tattler

Tringa brevipes

Near Threatened (IUCN Red List)Sandpipers and Allies
Gray-tailed Tattler, photographed by Sylvia Alexander

Photo: Sylvia Alexander · iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC 4.0 (licence)

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About the Gray-tailed Tattler

A handsomely-marked medium-sized gray shorebird with a medium-length, straight bill. Similar to Wandering Tattler; note wider white eyebrows that meet on the forehead above the bill, shorter nasal groove (only visible at close range), and finer and paler barring on the underparts (present only in the breeding season) that do not usually extend to the undertail coverts. Breeds near water in taiga and tundra, and frequents reefs, mangroves, mudflats, and beaches on migration and during the non-breeding season. Most common call is a two-note “too-lee,” but also gives trills similar to those of Wandering, especially when alarmed.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 55 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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