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WetlandScrapeMedium · 129 g
What the Common Redshank sounds like
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Common redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below. In winter plumage they become somewhat lighter-toned and less patterned, being rather plain greyish-brown above and whitish below. They have red legs and a black-tipped red bill, and show white up the back and on the wings in flight. The spotted redshank (T. erythropus), which breeds in the Arctic, has a longer bill and legs; it is almost entirely black in breeding plumage and very pale in winter.
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When to see the Common Redshank
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Common Redshank
The map shades 132 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Canada, Chad, Benin, Congo - Kinshasa, South Sudan.
About the Common Redshank
The common redshank or simply redshank is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae.
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Easily confused with
WilletTringa semipalmataThe willet is a particularly elegant and heavily built shorebird with a structure similar to that of the common redshank but being larger in size than the greater yellowlegs while resembling a godwit in flight with black primary coverts and primaries contrasting with a broad white band, white secondaries with a white rump and gray tail band.
Common GreenshankTringa nebulariaCommon greenshanks are brown in breeding plumage, and grey-brown in winter.
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesThe lesser yellowlegs is a medium-large shorebird, 23–25 cm (9.1–9.8 in) in overall length and with a wingspan of 59–64 cm (23–25 in) and a weight of 67–94 g (2.4–3.3 oz).
Side by side: Common Redshank vs Greater Yellowlegs · Common Redshank vs Lesser Yellowlegs · Common Redshank vs Willet · Common Greenshank vs Common Redshank
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