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Attagis
Sign in to saveAttagis is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.
Species
Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyThinocoridae
Observations347
Observations recorded6,152
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Thinocoridae
- Collections
- ROM, GNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Peru, Ecuador, Argentina
Wikidata facts
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- topic's main category
- Category:Attagis
- taxon name
- Attagis
- Commons category
- Attagis
- time period
- Holocene
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Encyclopedic overview
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Attagis is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.
These birds look superficially like partridges in structure and bill shape. They have short legs and long wings. Their 2-3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Attagis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.