Redshank
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Redshank may refer to:
- Redshank (soldier), 16th-century Scottish mercenaries
Birds[edit]
- Common redshank Tringa totanus, a shorebird
- Spotted redshank Tringa erythropus, a shorebird
Plants[edit]
- Redshanks Adenostoma sparsifolium, a shrub
- Redshank Persicaria maculosa, a plant in the buckwheat family
- Redshank Ceratodon purpureus, a moss
- Scarce redshank Ceratodon conicus, a moss of Britain and Ireland