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.
Example Sentences:
(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.