Wandering Tattler
Tringa incana
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Caradriformes)
- FamilyScolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies)
- GenusTringa (Shanks, Tattlers, and Allies)
- SpeciesTringa incana (Wandering Tattler)
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. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleuca
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitaria
Wilson's Snipe
Gallinago delicata
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Spotted Sandpiper
Actitis macularius
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauri
Dunlin
Calidris alpina
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseus
Red Knot
Calidris canutus
Red-necked Phalarope
Phalaropus lobatus
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Wandering Tattler at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there