Common Redshank

Common Redshank is a Eurasian wader in the sandpiper family. In breeding plumage it is marbled brown, and in winter it is lighter and plainer greyish-brown, with red legs and a black-tipped red bill (Wikipedia, general species account). It is closely related to the wood sandpiper and the marsh sandpiper (Wikipedia, general species account). The common redshank or simply redshank (Tringa totanus) is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. (Wikipedia, general species account).

several breed in Europe, Siberia and central and east Asia and winter in Africa, India and Southeast Asia, and the form eurhina breeds in Tajikistan, north India and Tibet and winters in India and the Malay Peninsula. These three subarctic- to temperate-region species form a group of smallish shanks with have red or yellowish legs, and in breeding plumage are generally a subdued light brown above with some darker mottling, and have somewhat diffuse small brownish spots on the breast and neck. (Wikipedia, general species account).