Identification Guides – BIRDS

AFRICAN PLOVERS, LAPWINGS & STILTS (Suborder Charadrii)
– Crowned Plover/Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
Crowned Plover/Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
– Temmink’s Courser (Cursorius temmininkii)
Temmink's Courser (Cursorius temmininkii)
– Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
– Pratincole (Glareola pratincola)
Pratincole (Glareola pratincola)

JACANAS & SANDPIPERS (Suborder Scolopaci)
– Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa)
– Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
– Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavips)
Lesser Yellowlegs
– Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
– Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
– Wandering Tattler (Heterscelus incanus)
– Gray-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes)
– Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
*** Non-breeding plumage
Spotted Sandpiper (Non-Breeding Plumage)
– Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
– Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
– Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)
– Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
– Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
– Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)
– Bar-tailed Godwit (Limos lapponica)
– Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
– Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
– Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
– Surfbird (Aphriza virgata)
– Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
– Sanderling (Calidris alba)
– Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
– Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
– Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
Least Sandpiper - Alfred Lagoon

Least Sandpiper - Alfred Lagoon
– White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
– Baird’s Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
– Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
– Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
– Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
– Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis)
– Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
– Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
– Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
– Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
– Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
– Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
– Long-tailed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
– Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
– American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
– Wilson’s Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
– Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
– Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria)

Leave a Reply