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What is a redshank?

What is a redshank? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Either of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.
  2. (derogatory) A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts.
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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.
There were peeps, probably some types of stints, larger redshank sized birds and some Tringa species.
The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
Suddenly hundreds of lapwing, redshank and dunlin all took wing, rapidly climbing high above the flooded flats.
The group has also managed the wet farmland so winter visitors include snipe, redshank, water rail and common sandpiper.

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