Meanings of redshank in English

He came upon a redshank's nest in a tuft of grass.

So then the peregrines try and go for individual waders like redshank or oystercatchers.

Photograph: Getty Images The redshank lifts its skirt and pipes a warning across the water.

The redshank was hit in mid-air, and feathers flew as it fell to the mud below.

I'll have to run like a redshank.

And for Dr Richard Luxmoore, senior nature conservation adviser at the National Trust for Scotland, it's the redshank.

Then the calling started again, as a cluster of redshank flew up and round the edge of the saltmarsh.

The rapid-fire calls of the redshank outside, jabbing urgently into the dawn sky like the bleep of an electronic alarm.

Keep your eyes peeled for Waders such as redshank and lapwing nesting on the islands of the London Wetlands Centre.

He knew the breed, and would have given a lot not to have molested that redshank's abode and be found there.

The decline, described as "alarming", found falls not only in the lapwing population but also lesser drops in the redshank, snipe and curlew populations.

The marshes are the home of many a bird like the Redshank.

For me it was harder work than for the active redshanks.

Now let us leave the beach and look for the Redshank on the mud-flats.

Professor Ansted includes the Redshank in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.

Out in the open again, there was the haunting cry of curlews overhead, then redshanks, plovers and snipe.