redshank

Historical Examples of redshank

• Now let us leave the beach and look for the Redshank on the mud-flats.

  On the Seashore

  R. Cadwallader Smith

• It had the soft quality, soft yet piercing, of a redshank's, but it shuddered like an owl's.

  Lore of Proserpine

  Maurice Hewlett

• Redshank, curlew, and dunlin—cousins of the snipe and woodcock—are all accomplished performers in the art of wooing on the wing.

  Birds in Flight

  W. P. Pycraft

• His cousin, the redshank, a much larger bird, has already been described here in regard to his spring love-making.

  Birds in Flight

  W. P. Pycraft

• Many birds would starve there, but the Redshank is quite happy, as Nature has fitted him for his life in such a place.

  On the Seashore

  R. Cadwallader Smith