RUFF (Calidris pugnax) adult male in winter plumage, Big Marsh, Broadmeadow Estuary, Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland

 

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The Ruff (Calidris pugnax) is a medium sized shorebird or wader of the sandpiper family Scolopacidae which is in the genus Calidris.

SPOTTED REDSHANK (Adults, breeding plumage) Tringa erythropus Nature Reserve, Fuente de Piedra, Malaga Province, Spain

 

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SANDWICH TERN (Thalasseus sandvicensis) Skerries Harbour, Skerries, Fingal, Co. Dublin

 

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BLACK HEADED GULL (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) first winter or first calender plumage, Skerries Harbour, Skerries, Fingal, Co. Dublin, Ireland

 

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 The Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) is of the family Laridae which is in the genus Chroicocephalus.

EURASIAN OYSTERCATCHER Haematopus ostralegus Rogerstown Estuary, Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland

 

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COMMON REDSHANK (Tringa totanus) Rogerstown Estuary, Rush, Co.Dublin, Ireland

 

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The Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) is of the family Scolopacidae which is in the genus Tringa.

CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY (Colias croceus) Palacio del Acebrón, Huelva, Spain

 

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BERGER'S CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY (Colias alfacariensis) Picos de Europa, Fuente De, Spain

 

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MIGRANT HAWKER DRAGONFLY (Aeshna mixta) Hutchinson's Strand Road, Broadmeadow Estuary, Swords, Fingal, Co Dublin, Ireland

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RUDDY TURNSTONE (Arenaria interpres) x 2 and COMMON REDSHANK (Tringa totanus) scavenging on a fish carcass, Loughshinny Harbour, Loughshinny, Fingal, Co.Dublin, Ireland

 

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The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is of the family Scolopacidae  which is in the genus Arenaria.

The Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) is of the family Scolopacidae  which is in the genus Tringa.