Wood Sandpiper
Inland water shorelines. Upperparts dark brown with white speckling; white eyebrows; buffy breast; white belly; yellow-green legs.
Bird Family: Sandpipers
Ruff
Wetlands. Orange legs in adult, dark in immature. Head and rear of neck dappled light brown; back and wings dark brown; all feathers boldly edged white; below white.
Ruddy Turnstone
Shorelines. Chestnut above with black and white about head, neck and breast; white below.
Marsh Sandpiper
Wetlands. Above sandy-brown with white feather edges and back; below white, slender black bill; long yellow-green legs.
Little Stint
Wetlands. Small shorebird. Non-breeding plumage sandy-brown above; feathers edged white; below white; short black bill and black legs
Grey Plover
Tidal flats. Bill, legs black. Above mottled light grey-brown and white; eyebrows and forehead white; below white; breast streaked light grey-brown; in flight ‘armpits’ black
Eurasian Whimbrel
Coastal lagoons. Large shorebird with long, black, down-curved bill. Dark brown crown with central white stripe; above dark brown mottled white; below white, streaked brown on breast and flanks.
Eurasian Curlew
Tidal waters. Very large shorebird with very long, down-curved bill; head, mantle and breast buff, well streaked dark brown with buffy-white feather edges; wing feathers edged white; underbelly white.
Common Sandpiper
Inland water shorelines. Upperparts and breast-band dark brown; below white extending around the folded wing; white upper tail barred brown.
