English: Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia). Tuzla, Karataş - Adana, Turkey.
Türkçe: Yeşilbacak (Tringa nebularia). Tuzla, Karataş - Adana, Türkiye.
Date 5 November 2016, 12:34:56
Author Zeynel Cebeci https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Zcebeci
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tringa_nebularia_-_Common_Greenshank,_Adana_2016-11-5_06-2.jpg

The common greenshank (Tringa nebularia) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific nebularia is from Latin nebula "mist". Like the Norwegian Skoddefoll, this refers to the greenshank's damp marshy habitat. This is a subarctic bird, breeding from northern Scotland eastwards across northern Europe and Asia. It is a migratory species, wintering in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia, usually on fresh water. It breeds on dry ground near marshy areas, laying about four eggs in a ground scrape.
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Tringa
Species: Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus, 1767)
Synonyms: Scolopax nebularia