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Observers...

This area of the Migration Story website is devoted to supporters who are following the project and would like to share their experiences with others involved.



Tell us what the environment is like in the area where you live, and share your knowledge and experience of migrating Greenshank. If you have seen Greenshank and would like to be involved in the project to share your experience with other people using this resource, please click here to send us your details. You do not need to send your contact details if you would prefer not to be contacted.

Observers

Greenshank observed in Ouessant, France

Aurelien Audevard


This image of a Greenshank (or Chevalier Aboyeur in French!) observed in Ouessant, France, was sent in by Aurelien Audevard.


YR OY in Vellemelen, Norway

Arne Vanebo


This image was sent to us by Arne Vanebo of the Greenshank colour-ringed YR OY in Vellemelen, Norway, where it is thought to breed. Sightings of this bird have also been reported from Brittany, France, where it spent last winter. Greenshanks are known in Norwegian as "Gluttsnipe".


OG YB in Spain

Pablo Fernandez Garcia


This image was sent to us by Pablo Fernandez Garcia of the Greenshank OG YB in Rio Del Eo, Spain. It was shortly joined by WO YB. Both birds were colour-ringed on the Ythan Estuary, Scotland, in August 2005.


YROY in Brittany

Sebastien Nedellec


Image of YROY which was colour-ringed in Chichester Harbour in 2004, feeding on mudflats in Brittany, France on December 25th 2005.


Peter Hermansen

Peter Hermansen


Peter is a ranger at the Norwegian site Rossaasen, Ljosaadalen, near Kristiansand. See Area Information for more about the site. He sent this image of himself there.



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