redshank

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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.

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  1. noun An Old World wading bird (Tringa totanus) having long red legs.

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  • Each winter, 68,000 birds including dunlin, redshank, pintail, wigeon and Bewick's swans find food and sanctuary along the river's muddy margins. —  Daily Express News Feeds
  • 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. —  Horticultural
  • Other breeding birds include the merlin, golden plover, black grouse, ring ouzel, curlew, lapwing, redshank and snipe. —  Whitehaven News headlines
  • He came upon a redshank's nest in a tuft of grass The redshank, who has much the cut of a snipe, plus red-orange legs, must have heard or seen him coming in the new, thin moonlight, and told all the marsh about it with a shrieking whistled, "Tyop! —  The Way of the Wild
  • She was carrying an old hen-redshank in her jaws, its long beak and one of its wings clearly silhouetted against the moon. —  The Way of the Wild
 

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/ˈrɛdʃæŋk/
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