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Calidris Melanotos
The pectoral sandpiper (''Calidris melanotos'') is a small, Bird migration, migratory wader that breeds in North America and Palearctic, Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania. It eats small invertebrates. Its bird nest, nest, a hole scraped in the ground and with a thick lining, is deep enough to protect its four egg (biology), eggs from the cool breezes of its breeding grounds. The pectoral sandpiper is long, with a wingspan of . Taxonomy The pectoral sandpiper is sometimes separated with the "stint" sandpipers in ''Erolia''. This may or may not represent a good monophyletic group, depending on the placement of the phylogenetically enigmatic curlew sandpiper (''"C." ferruginea''), the type species of ''Erolia''. In any case, the genus name ''Ereunetes''—formerly used for the western sandpiper (''"C." mauri'') and semipalmated sandpiper (''"C." pusilla''), which are also members of the stint clade—was established before ''Erolia''. "Cox's sandpiper" (''"Calidris"'' × ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist. Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collected himself in the West Indies and North America and South American species discovered but not formally named by Félix de Azara and his translator Sonnini de Manoncourt. He was among the first ornithologists to study changes in plumage and one of the first to study live birds. At least 77 of the genera erected by Vieillot are still in use. Biography Vieillot was born in Yvetot. He represented his family's business interests in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) on Hispaniola, but fled to the United States during the Haitian rebellions that followed the French Revolution. On Buffon's advice, he collected material for the ''Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale,'' the first two volumes of which were published in France beginning i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
