redshank
Tringa totanus

Common red-legged wader of estuaries and marshes with distinctive call

Habitat: marshes, estuaries and shores

Mainly passage migrant and winter visitor; does breed locally in UK

Dumpy wader with brown upperparts, long red legs and medium-sized black and red bill

Often seen in large flocks on estuaries; very noisy

Eats crustaceans, molluscs and worms

Nest is a lined scrape on ground

1 Brood April to June; 4 eggs buffish