The shorebird guide

Preface : a simplified approach to shorebird identification

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How to use this guide

Species photos

Domestic species

Lapwings and plovers (Family charadriidae)

Black-bellied plover

Pacific golden-plover

Snowy plover

Wilson's plover

Semipalmated plover

Piping plover

Killdeer

Mountain plover

Oystercatchers (Family haematopodidae)

American oystercatcher

Black oystercatcher

Stilts and avocets (Family recurvirostridae)

Black-necked stilt

American avocet

Sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies (Family scolopacidae

Greater yellowlegs

Lesser yellowlegs

Solitary sandpiper

Eastern willet

Willet subspecies comparison

Western willet

Willet subspecies comparison

Western willet

Wandering tattler

Spotted sandpiper

Upland sandpiper

Whimbrel

Whimbrel subspecies comparison

Long-billed curlew

Hudsonian godwit

Marbled godwit

Ruddy turnstone

Black turnstone

Surfbird

Red knot

Sanderling

Semipalmated sandpiper

Western sandpiper

Least sandpiper

White-rumped sandpiper

Baird's sandpiper

Pectoral sandpiper

Purple sandpiper

Rock sandpiper

Dunlin

Dunlin subspecies comparison

Stilt sandpiper

Buff-breasted dowitcher

Long-billed dowitcher

Wilson's snipe

American woodcock

Wilson's phalarope

Red-necked phalarope

Red phalarope

Rarities and regional specialties

Thick-knees (Family burhinidae)

Double-striped thick-knee

Lapwings and plovers (Family charadriidae)

Northern lapwing

European golden-plover

Lesser sand-plover

Greater sand-plover

Collared plover

Common ringed plover

Little ringed plover

Eurasian dotterel

Oystercatchers (Family haematopodidae)

Eurasian oystercatcher

Stilts and avocets (Family recurvirostridae)

Black-winged stilt

Jaçanas (Family jaçanidae)

Northern jaçana

Sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies (Family scolopacidae)

Common greenshank

Marsh sandpiper

Common redshank

Spotted redshank

Wood sandpiper

Green sandpiper

Gray-tailed tattler

Common sandpiper

Terek sandpiper

Little curlew

Eskimo curlew

Bristle-thighed curlew

Far Eastern curlew

Slender-billed curlew

Eurasian curlew

Black-tailed godwit

Bar-tailed godwit

Great knot

Red-necked stint

Little stint

Temminck's stint

Long-toed stint

Juvenile stint comparison

Worn breeding red-necked and little stint and ID pitfalls

Sharp-tailed sandpiper

Curlew sandpiper

Broad-billed sandpiper

Ruff

Jack snipe

Common snipe

Pin-tailed snipe

Eurasian woodcock

Coursers and pratincoles (Family glareolidae)

Oriental pratincole

Hybrid shorebirds

Aberrant shorebirds

Species accounts

Appendix

Answers to quiz questions in species photos

Full page photo information

Captions for impression photos in domestic section

Glossary

Bibliography

Photo credits

Index.