Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)

Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus) - HBW 3, p. 514

French: Chevalier errant German: Wanderwasserläufer Spanish: Playero de Alaska
Other common names: American Grey-rumped Sandpiper

Taxonomy: Scolopax incana Gmelin, 1789, Moorea (Eimeo), Society Group, Pacific Ocean.
Sometimes placed in genus Tringa. Forms superspecies with H. brevipes, with which sometimes considered conspecific. Monotypic.

Distribution: Extreme NE Siberia and S Alaska E to Yukon R and NW British Columbia. Winters in SW USA and W Mexico, Ecuador and Galapagos Is; also Hawaiian Is, C & S Pacific Is to E New Guinea and NE Australia.