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Wading birds

A pectoral sandpiper walking across wet mud. It's a small, brown wading bird with a sharp demarcation between the buffish-brown breast and white belly

Pectoral sandpiper

A spotted redshank wading through shallow water, with a perfect reflection. It's an elegant wader with a grey back, white belly and long reddish-orange legs. It has a bold white line above the eye and a long, fine bill with a red base to the lower mandible and a slightly drooping tip

Spotted redshank

A curlew sandpiper wading through a shallow, muddy pool. It's a small wading bird with a fairly long, downcurved beak, rusty red underparts and spangled black and red upparparts

Curlew sandpiper

A wood sanspiper trekking along the water's edge. It's a medium-sized wading bird with pale spangling on its dark back, a pale belly and a strong, pale line above the eye

Wood sandpiper

A little sting wading along the edge of a muddy shore

Little stint

A stone curlew standing in a meadow. It's a brown wading bird with a large yellow eye, long yellow legs and a slender yellow beak

Stone curlew

A black-winged stilt wading through a mud-fringed pool, its extremely long pink legs keeping the black and white body well above the water

Black-winged stilt

Jack snipe

Jack snipe

Purple sandpiper

Purple sandpiper

Corncrake

Corncrake

Little Ringed Plover

Little ringed plover

Whimbrel

Whimbrel

Ringed Plover

Ringed plover

Woodcock

Woodcock

Lapwing

Lapwing

Common Snipe

Snipe

Golden Plover

Golden plover

Red-necked Phalarope

Red-necked phalarope

Grey Plover

Grey plover

Turnstone

Turnstone

Knot

Knot

Sanderling

Sanderling

Dunlin

Dunlin

Green sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Common sandpiper

Ruff

Ruff

Water Rail

Water rail

A redshank standing amongst seaweed on the edge of the water

Redshank

Moorhen

Moorhen

Greenshank

Greenshank

Coot

Coot

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed godwit

Oystercatcher

Oystercatcher

Bar-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed godwit

Avocet

Avocet

Curlew

Curlew

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