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Tringa nebularia · Family Scolopacidae

Tringa nebularia

Family Scolopacidae

Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,124,361
Countries and territories with records
180
Common Greenshank
JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · Tringa nebularia - Laem Phak Bia.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Pascal Christe · Tringa_nebularia_-_Common_Greenshank_XC494033.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pascal Christe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,124,361 occurrence records from 180 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (23.6%), Denmark (9%), Taiwan (7.1%), Norway (6.6%) and Spain (6.1%); together they account for 52.4% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.49% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Tringa nebularia combines the genus name Tringa with the species epithet nebularia. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Tringa; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa totanus and Tringa flavipes.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 3 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Scolopacidae

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