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Totanus calidris
Redshank Red"shank` (r?d"sh?nk`), n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. (b) The fieldfare. 2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. --Spenser.
Totanus canescens
Greenshank Green"shank`, n. (Zo["o]l.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

Meaning of Totanus from wikipedia

- The common redshank or simply redshank (Tringa tot****) is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. The common redshank was formally described...
- Scolopax tot****, from totano, the Italian name for the bird. Birds once placed in the genus include: Common redshank (Tot**** tot****), now Tringa tot**** Greater...
- Scolopacidae Genus: Tringa Species: T. flavipes Binomial name Tringa flavipes (Gmelin, JF, 1789)   Breeding   Migration   Nonbreeding Synonyms Tot**** flavipes...
- eastern willet T. s. inornata western willet   Breeding   Nonbreeding Synonyms Scolopax semipalmatus Catoptrophorus semipalmatus Tot**** semipalmatus...
- Tringa Species: T. melanoleuca Binomial name Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, JF, 1789)   Breeding   Migration   Nonbreeding Synonyms Tot**** melanoleucus...
- more limited sense was even further subdivided into Tringa proper and Tot****, either as subgenera or as full genera. The available DNA sequence data...
- group that was probably present at the non-avian dinosaur's extinction. "Tot****" teruelensis (Late Miocene of Los Mansuetos (Spain) is sometimes considered...
- Arctictern September 29, 1973 Palomar PLS  · 6.8 km MPC · JPL 8770 Tot**** 3076 T-2 Tot**** September 30, 1973 Palomar PLS THM 15 km MPC · JPL 8771 Biarmicus...
- Redshank (soldier), 16th-century Scottish mercenaries Common redshank Tringa tot****, a s****bird Spotted redshank Tringa erythropus, a s****bird Redshanks...
- 2181 T-2 The Arctic tern, a bird. JPL · 8769 8770 Tot**** 3076 T-2 The common redshank Tringa tot**** (a bird). JPL · 8770 8771 Biarmicus 3187 T-2 The...