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redshank
[ red-shangk ]
redshank
/ ˈrɛdˌʃæŋk /
noun
- either of two large common European sandpipers, Tringa totanus or T. erythropus ( spotted redshank ), having red legs
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I have, however, a Redshank in full breeding plumage, killed in Guernsey as late as the 23rd of April.
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Many birds would starve there, but the Redshank is quite happy, as Nature has fitted him for his life in such a place.
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No sooner does the Redshank spy you than he is up and, with a shrill whistle of alarm, flies quickly away.
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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.
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The Redshank is a bird of frequent occurrence on all such parts of the coast as are suited to its habits.
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