Birds: Waders

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Temminck's Stint

Temminck's stint

Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii) breed in northern Europe and Asia, in Russia and in the mountain areas of Scandinavia, and sometimes in Scotland.

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Red-necked Phalarope

The Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) breed in the arctic regions of northern Europe, Asia and North America.

Bar-Tailed Godwit

The Bar-Tailed Godwit(Limosa lapponica) is a long migratory bird that nests in the tundra of northern Europe, Asia and western Alaska. The Bar-Tailed Godwit movses in flocks to the coasts of western Europe, Africa, South Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes birds from Europe and Asia occurs at North America's coasts during winter.

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Purple Sandpiper

The Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) breeds on the tundra in northwestern Europe, northern Siberia and its islands, including the Arctic islands in Canada and the coastal areas of Greenland and also in the Faroe Islands, Scotland and Svalbard.

Broad-billed Sandpiper

The Broad-billed Sandpipers (Limicola falcinellus) are nesting on the taiga of northern Scandinavia and Siberia. They are a typical migratory birds that winter in East Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia.

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Common Snipe

Common Snipe (Gallinago colchicus) nest in the northern Palearctic from central Europe and north, in Iceland, UK, Faroe Islands, the Azores and in much of Russia and northern India. The northern poulations are migratory birds. Pale western Arctic breeding birds are wintering in areas around the Mediterranean, also in Northern Africa and the Atlantic coast while Asian breeding birds spend the winter in India, China, Southeast Asia and the Philippines. The birds that breed in Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and parts of France are resident birds.

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Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) is a migratory bird that breeds across much of Europe and Asia. The birds winters in the Mediterranean and the coasts of western Europe, in Africa, the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, northern India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

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.