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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

Moorhen

Moorhen

Greenshank

Greenshank

Coot

Coot

Black-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed godwit

Oystercatcher

Oystercatcher

Bar-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed godwit

Avocet

Avocet

Curlew

Curlew

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

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