Definition of Tringa totanus

1. Noun. A common Old World wading bird with long red legs.

Exact synonyms: Redshank
Generic synonyms: Sandpiper
Group relationships: Genus Tringa, Tringa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tringa Totanus

Trilliaceae
Trillium erectum
Trillium recurvatum
Trillium sessile
Trimorphodon
Trimorphodon lambda
Trimox
Trimurti
Trina
Trinectes
Trinectes maculatus
Tring
Tringa flavipes
Tringa melanoleuca
Tringa nebularia
Tringa totanus
Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago dollar
Trinidadian
Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Trinidadians
Trinil man
Trinitarian
Trinitarianism
Trinitarians
Trinity
Trinity Monday
Trinity River
Trinity Sunday

Literary usage of Tringa totanus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Some of the following begin to migrate: Cathartes; Falcones; Curvus amer.; Alcedo; Quiscalus; Sturnella; Fringilla erythrophthalma; Fulica; Tringa; Totanus ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... and the tringa totanus, Meyer, in summer. Tringa Fusca, Falck, and when young the Scolo- ]i" i- Totanus, Gmelin, not Linnaeus, ..."

3. A History of the Birds of Europe: Including All the Species Inhabiting the ...by Henry Eeles Dresser, Richard Bowdler Sharpe by Henry Eeles Dresser, Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1881)
"(tringa totanus) viii. 157. nana (Sylvia) ii. 397. (Tringa) viii. 51. narbonensis (Parus) iii. 159. nasicus (Corvus) iv. 535. (Numenius) viii. ..."

4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Some of the following begin to migrate: Cathartes; Falcones; Curvus amer.; Alcedo; Quiscalus; Sturnella; Fringilla erythrophthalma; Fulica; Tringa; Totanus ..."

5. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1856)
"... and other water- birds (Tringa, Totanus, Charadrius, &c.), flew in companies along the surf on the water's-edge, uttering their lively, shrill note of ..."

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