redshank
[red-shangk]
- an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
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Now let us leave the beach and look for the Redshank on the mud-flats.
On the SeashoreR. Cadwallader Smith
It had the soft quality, soft yet piercing, of a redshank's, but it shuddered like an owl's.
Lore of ProserpineMaurice 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 FlightW. P. Pycraft
His cousin, the redshank, a much larger bird, has already been described here in regard to his spring love-making.
Birds in FlightW. 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 SeashoreR. Cadwallader Smith
redshank
- either of two large common European sandpipers, Tringa totanus or T. erythropus (spotted redshank), having red legs
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