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Birds
Any feathered vertebrate.
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Wood Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.
Lesser Yellowlegs
Animals; Birds
The Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a medium-sized shorebird similar in appearance to the larger Greater Yellowlegs. Their breeding habitat is clearings near ponds in the boreal forest region ...
Common Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos, is a small Palearctic wader. This bird and its American sister species, the Spotted Sandpiper (A. Macularia), make up the genus Actitis. The Common Sandpiper ...
Terek Sandpiper
Animals; Birds
The Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) is a small migratory Palearctic wader species, the only member of the genus Xenus. This bird breeds near water in the taiga from Finland through northern Siberia ...
Oriental Pratincole
Animals; Birds
The Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), also known as the Grasshopper-Bird or Swallow-Plover is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. Their most unusual feature of the pratincoles is ...
Collared Pratincole
Animals; Birds
The Collared Pratincole or Common Pratincole, Glareola pratincola, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. Pratincoles are unusual among waders in that they typically hunt their insect prey ...
Cream-coloured Courser
Animals; Birds
The Cream-colored Courser, Cursorius cursor, is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Although classed as waders, these are birds of dry open country, preferably semi-desert, ...
