Some, such as the oystercatchers, redshank and curlew, were still finding food by probing with their beaks. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Burghead, Moray] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantic coastal desert] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
"Both lapwing and redshank hatched more eggs when their nests were inside the cages," he says. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
Each winter, 68,000 birds including dunlin, redshank, pintail, wigeon and Bewick's swans find food and sanctuary along the river's muddy margins. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Express News Feeds] Reference
The RSPB's Marshside reserve in Merseyside is already grazed by cattle to keep the habitat in good condition for important lapwing and redshank populations. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Graham Clarkson, RSPB Marshside warden, said: '' Llamas are territorial and should chase away animals like foxes that can eat lapwing and redshank eggs and chicks. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Isaksson from the Department of Zoology at the University of Gothenburg has been studying colonies of lapwing and redshank nesting in the coastal meadows of Halland in south-western. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
Im with Thorrun on this one - either redshank or pale persicaria but without taking a seed sample and looking at the cotelydon leaves hard to precisly know - either way a polygonum species which more often than not are weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Horticultural] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch] Reference
Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have tested drastic new methods to protect species such as the Northern lapwing and redshank from predators, including protective cages over their nests and decoy eggs injected with a drug to induce vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Already used as livestock guards for lambs and sheep (including by the Prince of Wales), llamas are now being called on to protect the eggs and chicks of wading birds at a nature park in the UK-in particular, lapwing and redshank birds, which are both threatened species in England. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
11.18 And the redshank, and the pelican, and the gier eagle. From Wordnik.com. [New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Abs/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01156.x states that "Adult redshank displaced from Cardiff Bay experienced poor body condition and a 44% increase in mortality rate.". From Wordnik.com. [The price of mam's greed.] Reference
Like the regular redshank I am. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Graham Clarkson, RSPB Marshside warden, said: "Llamas are territorial and should chase away animals like foxes that can eat lapwing and redshank eggs and chicks. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I'll have to run like a redshank. From Wordnik.com. [Three Plays] Reference
Or redshank piped with reedy whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1911-12] Reference
He just did – went like a redshank. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Bush Maid] Reference
A redshank.”. From Wordnik.com. [Tumbleweed]
1 Spotted redshank. From Wordnik.com. [Migrations] Reference
"He just did -- went like a redshank. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Bush Maid] Reference
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