Preview. This shows what a full profile for Shorebirds will look like once our species database connects here: real photos, measurements, and behaviour notes are coming.
Bird category
Shorebirds
Sandpipers, plovers and godwits.
Showing 4 sample species, the full shorebirds category (66 species) opens in the app.
Black-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosa
16–18 inWet meadowsMigratory
A ringing wicka-wicka-wicka in display flight.
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Common Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
7–8 inRiver edgesMigratory
A thin, rippling three-note whistle as it flushes.
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Ringed Plover
Ringed Plover
Charadrius hiaticula
7–8 inShingle beachesMigratory
A soft, rising too-lee.
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Eurasian Curlew
Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata
19–23 inMoors, estuariesMigratory
The long bubbling call that gives it its name.
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Warblers
Raptors
Owls
Parrots
Finches & sparrows
Thrushes
Woodpeckers
Waterfowl
Hummingbirds
Corvids
Doves & pigeons