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Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Redshank.Spotted Redshank. L 158.
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GREENSHANK. 159 Greenshank. Tringa nehilaria (Gnnner.). In northern Europe and Asia the Greenshank (Plate 66)nests south of the Arctic circle, and it visits southern Europeand Africa in winter ; in most parts of the British Isles it isa regular though seldom abundant passage migrant, joiningother waders on the shore and frequently appearing on inlandwaters. In the north of Scotland, and on a number of Scottishislands, it nests in small numbers. A few birds winter inIreland and, more rarely, in England. The long, slightly uptilted bill of the Greenshank is usually acharacter by which we can separate it from the Redshankswith which it often feeds, but it is a longer-legged, larger bird,and when it rises, though the white rump is very conspicuous,shows no white wing border, for its secondaries are brown. Itspose, too, is different, the body being held horizontal, at rightangles to its legs, which has the effect of making it look a muchlonger bird. Though alert enough, it has little of th

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