Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Tringa incana
Playero Vagabundo, Playero Errante, Wandering Tattler
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Tringa
Species
incana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Heteroscelus incanus Gmelin, 1789
Origin: Migrant
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
- Lévêque, R. Bowman, R.I. & Billeb, S.L.. (1966) Migrants in the Galapagos area. Condor 68(1): 81-101.
- Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tringa incana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16786. Accessed 15 December 2025.