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Nordmann's Greenshank

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The Spotted Greenshank or Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. The Spotted Greenshank breeds in eastern Russia along the ...

The Green Sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, is a small wader (shorebird) of the Old World. It represents an ancient lineage of the genus Tringa; is only close living relative is the Solitary Sandpiper. It ...

Solitary Sandpiper

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The Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) is a small wader (shorebird). Its only close relative in the genus Tringa is the Green Sandpiper. It breeds in woodlands across Alaska and Canada.

Greater Yellowlegs

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The Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca, is a large North American shorebird, similar in appearance to the smaller Lesser Yellowlegs. Their breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the boreal ...

Common Greenshank

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The Greenshank Tringa nebularia is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. This is a subarctic bird, breeding from northern Scotland eastwards across northern Europe and Asia.

Long-billed Dowitcher

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The Long-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus, is a medium-sized shorebird. Their breeding habitat is wet tundra in the far north of North America and eastern Siberia.

Short-billed Dowitcher

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The Short-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus, like its congener the Long-billed Dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. It is an inhabitant of North ...