{"id":15368,"count":1,"description":"The shanks and tattlers are wading bird species in a number of genera characterised by a medium length bill and long, often brightly coloured legs. They chase visible prey, rather than probing like most waders. \n\nThese species are more associated with temperate regions for breeding than the rest of this largely arctic family. They are more often found in fresh water environments than many waders. \n\nUnusually for waders, some of this group, notably Green Sandpiper, nest in trees, using the old nests of other birds, usually thrushes. \n\nThe shanks' and tattlers' closest relatives are the phalaropes, as well as the turnstone and calidrid (van Tuinen et al. 2004). The present group is now considered to make up the large genus Tringa and two very small ones, similar to the situation found in many other shorebird lineages such as calidrid, snipe and woodcock, or gull. The Willet and the tattler have turned out to be actually assignable to Tringa (Pereira & Baker, 2005); these genus changes...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/shanks\/","name":"Shanks","slug":"shanks","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}