What's the difference between tringa and yellowlegs?

Tringa


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.

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  • (1) Besides B. prolecithum and B. tamsuiensis could be synonymous but it is not proved; 3) L. acanthophalla and L. bucephalae tringae are both synonimisided with L. bucephalae Yamaguti, 1939.
  • (2) sp., parasite of Charadriiform Birds (Tringa flaviceps; Micropalama himantopus; Gallinago gallinago delicata; Squatarola squatarola) of Guadelupa and also of a Passeriforme, Quiscalus lugubris.
  • (3) Three West Nile (WN) virus strains were isolated from the blood of birds (Tringa ochropus, Vanellus vanellus and Streptopenia turtur) captured in south Slovakia.
  • (4) One strain of tick-borne encephalitis (TE) virus was isolated from the blood of Tringa ochropus captured in south Moravia.
  • (5) ; 2) Basantisia halcyonae, B. longa, B. ramai -- Belopolskiella prolecithum; 3) Microphallus oviformis; 4) Levinseniella acanthophalla, L. bucephalae tringae; 5) Spiculotrema littoralis.

Yellowlegs


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

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