Birds: Waders

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Mountain Plover

The Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus) is unlike most plovers, usually not found near bodies of water or even on wet soil; it prefers dry habitat with short grass and bare ground. It breeds in the high plains of North America from extreme southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan to northern New Mexico and the Texas panhandle, as well as an isolated site in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. About 85 percent of the population winters in the San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys in California. Its winter range also extends along the U.S.-Mexican border, more extensively on the Mexican side.

Mountain plover

Golden Plover

The Golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) is a migratory bird that breeds in northern Europe, western Asia, the Siberian tundra, and in northeastern Greenland. The bird winters in the UK, Ireland, locally in Western Europe from Denmark and south to Portugal and the Mediterranean, including North Africa.

Great egret

The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret or (in the Old World) great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the Neotropics

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Pectoral sandpiper

The pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) is a small, migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania.

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Little crake

Little crake (Porzana parva) breeds in Europe, mainly in the east and just into western Asia.This species is migratory, wintering in Africa.

Little crake

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American Flamingo

Bahamas National Bird

The American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is the only flamingo which naturally inhabits North America.The American flamingo breeds in the Galápagos, coastal Colombia, Venezuela and nearby islands, Trinidad and Tobago, along the northern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, Hispaniola, The Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Saint Helena plover

The National Bird of Saint Helena

The Saint Helena plover (Charadrius sanctaehelenae) locally known as wirebird due to its thin legs, is a small wader endemic to the island of Saint Helena.

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Curlew Sandpiper

The Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a long migratory bird that breeds in northern Siberia, the Yamal Peninsula and east to Tjaunskajabukten, and the New Siberian Islands and the Wrangel island.

Kentish Plover

Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) nest locally in most subtropical and tropical parts of the world, from North Africa and Europe, and as far north as Denmark and Japan.
The bird also breed in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, southern U.S. and the Caribbean.

Spotted Redshank

The Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) breed in Scandinavia and northern Asia.

Woodcock

The Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) occurs over large parts of the temperated and subarctic Palaearctic and its breeding range extends from Fennoscandia to the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands, and from Western Europe to Russia.

Woodcock

Marsh Sandpiper

The marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia.

Great Snipe

The Great Snipe (Gallinago media) is found in Eurasian coniferous forest from Norway east to the Yenisei in Russia.

Phalarope

Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) nest in the arctic regions of northern Europe, Asia and North America. It is a migratory bird, and, unusually for a wader, moving mostly on sea routes and wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.

Green Sandpiper

The Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) breed in northern Europe and Asia. It is a migratory bird arriving and moving early, and winters in southern Europe and Asia and in tropical Africa.

Green Sandpipe

Ruddy Turnstone

The Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) have circumpolar distribution and in winter move as far south as to South African and the Australian coasts. It is thus common on coasts almost everywhere in the world.

Jack Snipe

Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) breed in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Jack Snipes are migratory, spending the non-breeding period in Great Britain, Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal Europe, Africa, and India.

Common Sandpiper

The Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) is a migratory bird that breeds across much of Europe and Asia. It winters in Africa, South Asia and Australia.

Little Stint

The Little Stint(Calidris minuta) is a long-migrant that breeds in the arctic regions of Europe and Asia. The bird winters in Africa and South Asia.

Grey Heron

The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is very wide spread. It breeds in Europe as far west as the Azores, and north to Harstad in Norway, in Africa, both north of the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, down to South Africa, in much of Asia and on islands in the Indian Ocean.

Grey Heron