Seen in France recently. Very green legs! The beak looks rather short but I wondered if it's a juvenile.
CLOSED: Is this a Greenshank?
A young Moorhen ;-)
Here's a Greenshank for comparison, note the very different, much lankier shape:
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OK, thanks. I didn't realise that Moorhen have such green legs. I've seen very young moorhen chicks when they are mostly black but didn't know that they went through this stage with so much white.
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