They are a scarce breeding species, usually seen in the autumn and winter on estuaries and wetland. Redshanks are smaller than oystercatchers and both sexes look similar with long orange-red legs.

SCIO TOWNSHIP, MI - A rare bird sighting just west of Ann Arbor has lured hundreds of bird watchers from all over the Midwest to Scio Township to view it and take photographs. Since Nov. 2, a spotted ...

In the past ten years, numbers have increased from 20 to 35 breeding pairs across the whole Avon Valley. During the 2025 season 11 redshank nests were monitored across two key sites, nine of these ...

Avocets have bred in 2023 in record numbers at the site Wading birds at a wildlife reserve in the north-east of England have bred in record numbers in the past year, a conservation charity has said.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Martin Hughes-Games presents the Redshank. Redshanks spend the winter on our estuaries ...

Many species of waders, named because they hunt for food on the shorelines of the country’s lakes and rivers, are continuing to struggle, according to scientists in the latest Breeding Bird Survey ...

A bird tagged by the 139-year-old Bombay Natural History Society, the common redshank, has been found 5,100 kilometres away in Russia, setting off a flutter of excitement among nature lovers. The BNHS ...

Navi Mumbai: It is not the pink necked Flamingoes that have the bird watchers rejoicing this time but the sighting of another migratory bird -- Common Redshank -- all the way in Russia. The tiny bird ...