A large sandpiper bird with long greenish legs, commonly found wading in marshes and wetlands across Europe and Asia.
Compound of 'green' and 'shank' (leg). The bird's distinctive greenish legs give it its common name. The scientific name is Tringa nebularia.
Greenshanks are incredible migrants—some fly from Arctic breeding grounds to African wintering grounds and back each year, traveling thousands of miles using the sun, stars, and Earth's magnetic field as a GPS!
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