Order CHARADRIIFORMES: Waders, Gulls and Terns Family
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Text extracted from Gill B.J.; Bell, B.D.; Chambers, G.K.; Medway, D.G.; Palma, R.L.; Scofield, R.P.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Worthy, T.H. 2010. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. 4th edition. Wellington, Te Papa Press and Ornithological Society of New Zealand. Pages 191, 194 & 196-197. Order CHARADRIIFORMES: Waders, Gulls and Terns The family sequence of Christidis & Boles (1994), who adopted that of Sibley et al. (1988) and Sibley & Monroe (1990), is followed here. Family SCOLOPACIDAE Rafinesque: Sandpipers and Allies Scolopacea Rafinesque, 1815: Analyse de la Nature: 70 – Type genus Scolopax Linnaeus, 1758. Christidis & Boles (1994) noted that the sequence of genera and species in the Scolopacidae varies considerably between works, and that there are no substantive data to favour any one sequence over another. The sequence adopted by Checklist Committee (1990) is generally followed here in the interests of consistency. Subfamily CALIDRINAE Reichenbach: Arctic Sandpipers and Allies Calidrinae Reichenbach, 1853: Avium Syst. Nat.: 17 – Type genus Calidris Merrem, 1804. Genus Calidris Merrem Calidris Merrem, 1804: Allg. Lit. Zeitung 2(168): col. 542 – Type species (by tautonymy) Tringa calidris Gmelin = Calidris canutus (Linnaeus). Ereunetes Illiger, 1811: Prodromus Syst. Mamm. Avium: 262 – Type species (by monotypy) Ereunetes petrificatus Illiger = Calidris pusilla Linnaeus. Erolia Vieillot, 1816: Analyse Nouv. Ornith. Elem.: 55 – Type species (by monotypy) Erolia variegata Vieillot = Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan). Pelidna Cuvier, 1817: Règne Anim. 1: 490 – Type species (by original designation) Tringa alpina Linnaeus = Calidris alpina (Linnaeus). Crocethia Billberg, 1828: Synop. Faun. Scand. 1(2): 132 – Type species (by monotypy) Charadrius calidris Linnaeus = Calidris alba (Pallas). Pisobia Billberg, 1828: Synop. Faun. Scand. 1(2): 136 – Type species (by subsequent designation) Tringa minuta Leisler = Calidris minuta (Leisler). Limonites Kaup, 1829: Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw.: 37 – Type species (by monotypy) Tringa temminckii Leisler = Calidris temminckii (Leisler). Ancylochilus Kaup, 1829: Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw.: 50 – Type species (by monotypy) Scolopax subarquata Güldenstaedt = Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan). Actodromas Kaup, 1829: Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw.: 55 – Type species (by monotypy) Tringa minuta Leisler = Calidris minuta (Leisler). Canutus Brehm, 1831: Handb. Naturgesch. Vög. Deutschl.: 653 – Type species (by tautonymy) Tringa canutus Linnaeus = Calidris canutus (Linnaeus). Micropalama Baird, 1858: Expl. Surv. Miss. River Pac. Ocean. Birds: 714, 726 – Type species (by monotypy) Tringa himantopus Bonaparte = Calidris himantopus (Bonaparte). Heteropygia Coues, 1861: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.: 190 – Type species (by original designation) Tringa bonapartei Baird = Calidris fuscicollis (Vieillot). Limnocinclus Gould, 1865: Handb. Birds Australia 2: 254 – Type species (by subsequent designation) Totanus acuminatus Horsfield = Calidris acuminata (Horsfield). Anteliotringa Mathews, 1913: Birds Australia 3: 274 – Type species (by original designation) Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield = Calidris tenuirostris (Horsfield). Calidris acuminata (Horsfield) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Totanus acuminatus Horsfield, 1821: Trans. Linn. Soc. London 13(1): 192 – Java, Indonesia. Limnocinclus acuminatus (Horsfield); Travers 1883, Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst. 15: 187. Tringa acuminata (Horsfield); Buller 1888, History of the Birds of N.Z., 2nd edition 2: 37. Heteropygia acuminata (Horsfield); Buller 1905, Suppl. Birds N.Z. 1: 187. Pisobia maculata acuminata (Horsfield); Iredale 1913, Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst. 45: 86. Heteropygia maculata acuminata (Horsfield); Mathews & Iredale 1913, Ibis 1 (10th ser.): 260. Erolia acuminatus; Stidolph 1927, Emu 26: 216. Unjustified emendation. Erolia acuminata; Stidolph 1932, Emu 31: 234. Erolia acuminata (Horsfield); Peters 1934, Check-list Birds World 2: 284. Calidris acuminata (Horsfield); Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 46. Breeds in north-east Siberia. Migrates mainly to New Guinea and Australia. The East Asian– Australasian Flyway population is estimated at 166,000 birds, most of which migrate to Australia. The eighth most numerous arctic wader visiting New Zealand each year, but in numbers much less than visit Australia. About 80 in New Zealand every summer. Widespread; favoured localities being Firth of Thames, Lake Ellesmere (Te Waihora), and the estuary at Invercargill (Sagar et al. 1999, Medway 2000c). Regular visitor to Norfolk Island (Moore 1999) and occasional visitor to Kermadec Islands (Veitch et al. 2004). Vagrant at Snares Islands / Tini Heke (Miskelly et al. 2001a), Chatham Islands (Freeman 1994) and Auckland Islands (Bell 1975). .