How To Use Redshank In A Sentence
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Dried redshank seeds were eaten by the sparrows, and linnets.
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In the distance the shingle gave way to muddy sand and she could see dunlin and redshank at the water's edge.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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There were peeps, probably some types of stints, larger redshank sized birds and some Tringa species.
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The haunts of the mallard, the snipe, the redshank, and the bittern, have been drained equally with the summer dwellings of the lapwing and the curlew.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832
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The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds.
Atlantic coastal desert
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He has 120 breeding pairs of waders on his land, including lapwings, curlews and redshanks.
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The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
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She had turned and looked down, as she always did when human complexities made her seek reassurance as to the worth of this world, on the shiny mud-flats, blue-veined with the running tides, and green marshes where the redshanks choired.
The Judge
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Bird species to be seen include ringed plover, oystercatcher, redshank and little grebe.
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Common offenders are annual meadow grass, chickweed, fat hen, groundsel, hairy bittercress, redshank and shepherd's purse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Crabs in the gulleys, fish in the creeks, curlew and redshank and brent geese fly here every winter all the way from Siberia.
A SEASON IN HELL
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When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk.
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Crabs in the gulleys, fish in the creeks, curlew and redshank and brent geese fly here every winter all the way from Siberia.
A SEASON IN HELL
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We were fortunate when visiting the Suffolk Blyth estuary in May: the first mudbanks were just appearing, and a host of wading birds soon put in an appearance, among them 10 spotted redshank.
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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On the other side of post at the sewage pond I saw the usual black-winged stilts plus a pair of spotted redshanks and an active green sandpiper bobbing its tail as it fed along the shoreline.
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A conspicuous plant in these fields is redshank, which is also known as persicaria, or lady's thumb.
Times, Sunday Times
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
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On the peaty hummocks of Yew Tree Heath in the north-east of the forest, where a few hessian-coloured fallow deer merge into the rust-tipped bracken, the only sounds are the wailing of a redshank and the hum of bees.
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Wildfowlers would like to get redshanks back onto the list of birds which can be legally shot.
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When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk.
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Kearton somewhere relates how he once induced a blackbird to sit on the eggs of a thrush, and a lapwing on those of a redshank.
Birds in the Calendar
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Birds with restricted range include the spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus), Jananese Robin (Erithacus akahige), Bull-headed Strike (Lanius bucephalus), and the Forest Wagtail (Motacilla lutea).
South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
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In the distance the shingle gave way to muddy sand and she could see dunlin and redshank at the water's edge.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Suddenly hundreds of lapwing, redshank and dunlin all took wing, rapidly climbing high above the flooded flats.
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A whitethroat flies out over the salt marsh from its grassed nesting bank on the most recent seawall, singing its dry ratchet song over the slippery green ooze; a redshank agitated by a marsh harrier towers inland over emerald wheat fields calling its bleak mud-flat alarm.
A Year on the Wing
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No doubt the element of surprise plays a large part in their capture of prey, but sparrowhawks are capable of performing remarkable pursuits and captures of such fast-flying birds as the redshank.
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Waders such as redshank and spoonbills, have begun to proliferate, and numbers of larks, linnets, yellowhammers and reed bunting have grown.
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Eggs, on the other hand, like those of the house sparrow, redshank and some of the smaller warblers, are so easily confused with those of allied species that Lord Lilford's caution is by no means superfluous.
Birds in the Calendar
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Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there.
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch
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When I came in April, the whimbrel, a summer migrant, had arrived to join the resident curlews, redshanks and oystercatchers.
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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It is hoped that birds such as the lapwing, skylark and redshank will increasingly use the sites as well as butterflies such as the green hairstreak.
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I observed a pair of ringed plovers, a new species for me, a common redshank, two dozen black-winged stilts and a yellow wagtail.
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The meadows are also important for breeding waders including redshank and curlew.
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There are also ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, grey plover Pluvialis squatarola, knot Calidris canutus, redshankTringa totanus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica among many other species.
Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
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View the pools and lagoons to see migrant waders like greenshanks and spotted redshanks.
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Birds with restricted range include the spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus), Jananese Robin (Erithacus akahige), Bull-headed Strike (Lanius bucephalus), and the Forest Wagtail (Motacilla lutea).
South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
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Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years.
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Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
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A conspicuous plant in these fields is redshank, which is also known as persicaria, or lady's thumb.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover.
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He has 120 breeding pairs of waders on his land, including lapwings, curlews and redshanks.
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Knot spun away in a grey miniature cloud, wigeon split up into small groups while the redshanks did not seem to know what to do.
Country diary: Cromarty Firth
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Common offenders are annual meadow grass, chickweed, fat hen, groundsel, hairy bittercress, redshank and shepherd's purse.
Times, Sunday Times
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The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
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Persicaria, or redshank, is still common beside fields.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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Wild fowl in great variety visit the island, and the low-lying land within the sea-wall is the favourite haunt of many sea-birds; and several varieties of plover, the redshank, greenshank, sandpiper, and snipe may be found there.
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch
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Some, such as the oystercatchers, redshank and curlew, were still finding food by probing with their beaks.
Country diary: Burghead, Moray
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The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.
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The lapwings have gone, along with the curlews and redshanks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
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Many of the most destructive grasshopper species have poetic-sounding names: There's the whitewhiskered grasshopper and the threebanded, spottedwinged, redshanked and bigheaded varieties as well.
Day of the Grasshopper Looms
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When I came in April, the whimbrel, a summer migrant, had arrived to join the resident curlews, redshanks and oystercatchers.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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Conservationists are now hoping for fine weather this year to give the tiny chicks of birds such as lapwing, curlew, redshank and snipe a chance of survival.
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As the car jolts along past "Hag's Valley," a dozen curlews take wing, and a little further on the shrill cry of the redshank strikes on the ear.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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A hooded crow, large and muscular beside the smaller waders, stabs its way through the pile, not once bothering to look up, while a single redshank steps daintily across the weed's surface in search of a likely area to pick over.
Country diary: Benbecula
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When I came in April, the whimbrel, a summer migrant, had arrived to join the resident curlews, redshanks and oystercatchers.
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The swelling population of hedgehogs on the Scottish islands of North and South Uist and Benbecula has been devouring birds' eggs and chicks, leading to a big decline in the population of rare waders - like oystercatchers and redshanks.
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In the long-term the scheme will provide ‘compensation’ for other areas where development means natural habitats are lost and they are hoping to attract species such as redshank, dunlin, curlew, golden plover and shelduck.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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In the distance the shingle gave way to muddy sand and she could see dunlin and redshank at the water's edge.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds.
Atlantic coastal desert
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At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls.
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A conspicuous plant in these fields is redshank, which is also known as persicaria, or lady's thumb.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were peeps, probably some types of stints, larger redshank sized birds and some Tringa species.
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Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
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Other birds facing tough times in Bradford include the house sparrow, the golden plover, the yellowhammer and the redshank.
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(_Linota flavirostris_), hen harrier (_Circus cyaneus_), buzzard (_Buteo vulgaris_), redshank (_Totanus calidris_), greenshank (_Totanus cunescens_) and the little auk (_Mergulus alle_).
Hertfordshire