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greenshank

(n): large European sandpiper with greenish legs
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5 months ago chained_bear said:

"...and everywhere those fluting marsh- and shore-bird cries, often the same as those they had both heard in their boyhood and uttered by birds if not of quite the very species than wonderfully like—greenshanks, stilts, avocets, plovers of every kind."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 348

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