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What is a greenshank?

What is a greenshank? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.
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The greenshank breeds in Scotland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
The greenshank breeds very locally in Scotland, and is best known to us at its more or less inland nesting stations.
Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
The greenshank, Latin name tringa nebularia, breed from Scotland, across Scandinavia and northern Europe into Russia and Kazakhstan.
They are rather handsomely marked and are practically indistinguishable from eggs of the European greenshank.
Other wildlife to be seen at the reserve includes a number of notable bird species such as golden plover, curlew and greenshank.

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