Birds: Waders

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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

Killdeer

The Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover. The range of the Killdeer spreads across the Western Hemisphere. In the summer, Killdeer live as far north as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, the Yukon, Quebec, as well as the southern parts of the U.S. state of Alaska. Killdeer hold a year-round presence across the southern half of the United States and parts of Peru.

Giant ibis

National bird of Cambodja

The giant ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea) is confined to northern Cambodia, with a few birds surviving in extreme southern Laos.

Dotterel

The Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus) is a migratory bird that nests primarily in northern Scandinavia, northern Russia, Mongolia, China and Alaska, but also at a few places around Europe at high altitude. In winter, the phone is in northern Africa and the Middle East such as Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran.

Little Ringed Plover

The Little Ringed Plover(Charadrius dubius) has a large range and nests in northwestern Africa, in much of Europe (though not in Ireland and Iceland) and southeast Asia to the Philippines and New Guinea, and on a few islands in the Pacific. They are migratory and winter in Africa..