(n.) A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.
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Redshank
Definition:
(n.) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
(n.) The fieldfare.
(n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost two-fifths (37%) of England and Wales's lowland snipe, as well as redshank, lapwing and rare black-tailed godwits , have been affected by the adverse weather.
(2) He said snipe, redshank, lapwing, curlew and black-tailed godwit, were all species that had declined rapidly in numbers in recent years.
(3) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(4) "There's no reason now that birds like snipe, redshanks and lapwings there shouldn't have a successful summer," an RSPB spokesman said.
(5) The contrast between the man-made and the natural gives the walk a slightly surreal air, as we switch from spotting redshank and lapwings to a first world war submarine tower on the riverbank.
(6) Phil Burston, water policy officer at the RSPB, said: "Wading birds like lapwings, redshanks and avocets rely on shallow pools and boggy marshes.