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redshank - use in sentences
Converse of object
- spot: The shallow water and islands are attractive to wading birds on migration, such as greenshank, spotted redshank and green sandpiper.
- include: Feeding around the water's edge were several heron species, malachite kingfisher and waders including redshank, spotted redshank, marsh sandpiper.
- breed: Species such as breeding redshank, lapwing as well as migrant waders including oystercatcher and gray plover are all regularly sighted.
Preposition: on
- estuary: The Stonechats seem to perform the role of sentinel like the Redshank on estuaries.
Adjective modifier
- spotted: Plenty of Redshank on the lake side - no spotted redshank here to confuse them with.
- common: Common redshank: two were present at Zakaki and Ladies ' Mile on 29th.
- solitary: The Little Egret foraged in the shallow pools between the mussel beds with a solitary Redshank.
- more: Right out near the end, a pool held a Ringed Plover and three more Redshanks.
Modifies a noun
- feeding: One flock of 300+ spotted redshank feeding in deeper water like phalaropes.
- nest: There is a large winter gull roost and one or two pairs of redshank nest here - unusual so far from the coast.
- seed: Redshank seed has been found as an impurity in cereal, flax, grass and clover seed.
- number: Jack Snipe numbers reached a maximum of 5 on the 5th and Redshank numbers peaked at 6 on the 10th.
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