Redshank

The Redshank ( Tringa totanus ) is a limicolous bird of the family of the scolopacidés .

Description

The redshank is small limicolous from approximately 25 to 30 cm, with the legs bright red and the plumage with dominant gray. In bridal plumage, the back and the top of the wings are gray dark with brown, just as the head and the neck. The belly and the chest white are mottled of black. With the autumn, the dark parts are cleared up to become gray clear, the spots of the belly disappear. It can then be confused with the Chevalier harlequin. They are two limicolous ones of this size to the only have the red legs. The Redshank is characterized some mainly by a nozzle a little shorter, and by broad band white with the back of the visible wing in flight, which immediately distinguishes it from all the other limicolous ones. Called " red feet ".

Habitat

The redshank meets primarily in wetlands and salted, generally on mudholes in which it is nourished of worms and small shellfish. Often solitary, one can nevertheless find it in groups of a few tens of individuals, or accompanied greenshanks, knights harlequins or russet-red barges and barges with black tail. Nicheur in certain areas (the Camargue, the Vendée…), he is a visitor of winter very running on the French coasts.

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