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Explore wild species across the UK:

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Wading birds

Pectoral sandpiper

Spotted redshank

Curlew sandpiper

Wood sandpiper

Little stint

Stone curlew

Black-winged stilt

Jack snipe

Purple sandpiper

Corncrake

Moorhen

Greenshank

Coot

Black-tailed godwit

Oystercatcher

Bar-tailed godwit

Avocet

Curlew

Little ringed plover

Whimbrel

Ringed plover

Woodcock

Lapwing

Snipe

Golden plover

Red-necked phalarope

Grey plover

Turnstone

Knot

Sanderling

Dunlin

Green Sandpiper

Common sandpiper

Ruff

Water rail

Redshank

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