Gray-tailed tattler
(Choắt lùn đuôi xám, Tringa brevipes)
also known as the Siberian tattler or Polynesian tattler,
formerly Heteroscelus brevipes.
Grey-tailed tattler(Choắt lùn đuôi xám, Tringa brevipes) is a small shore bird, Scolopacidae family, Tringa genus.
The bird is migratory, breeding in northeast Siberia, wintering in the area from southeast Asia to Australia.
The grey-tailed Tattler is a pass-through winter bird commonly sighted at the Xuan Thuy National Park.
The term Charadriiformes comes from New Latin, combining the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines") and the Latin suffix -formes meaning "forms" or "shaped like". Therefore, Charadriiformes translates to "birds shaped like or resembling the charadrius," which is a type of plover or stone curlew historically found in dry river beds or ravines.
The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.
The name Tringa is the Neo-Latin name given to the green sandpiper based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle.
The specific brevipes is from Latin brevis, "short", and pes, "foot".
The English name for the tattlers refers to their noisy call.











