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Common Redshank

Tringa totanus

Classification

Class
Aves

The common redshank or simply redshank (Tringa totanus) is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. Taxonomy The common redshank was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Scolopax totanus. It is now placed with twelve other species in the genus Tringa that Linnaeus had introduced in 1758.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 294,568United Kingdom · 199,307Spain · 76,130France · 25,209Germany · 13,848Italy · 4,523Belgium · 4,191Switzerland · 605Luxembourg · 32