Range: subsaharan Africa
Annotated
list of shorebirds (waders) of the world
Lesser Jacana (Microparra capensis)
Range: subsaharan Africa
African Jacana (Actophilornis africana)
Range: subsaharan Africa
Madagascar Jacana (Actophilornis albinucha)
Range: Madagascar
Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea)
Range: N. Australia, Indonesia
Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus
chirurgus)
Range: southern Asia
Bronze-winged Jacana (Metopidius indicus)
Range: southern Asia
Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa)
Range: central America, Caribbean
Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)
Range: South America
Painted Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis)
Range: old world tropics
South American Painted Snipe (Nycticryphes
semicollaris)
Range: southern South America
Crab Plover Dromas ardeola
Range: coastal southwestern Asia and eastern
Africa
American Oystercatcher
(Haematopus palliatus)
Range: southern North America, through
South America, coastally
African Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus
moquini)
Range: southern African coast
Canarian Black Oystercatcher Haematopus
meadewaldoi
Range: Canary Islands
Variable
Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor)
Range: New Zealand
Chatham Islands Oystercatcher (Haematopus
chathamensis)
Range: Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand
Magellanic Oystercatcher Haematopus leucopodus
Range: extreme southern South America
Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris)
Range: coastal Australia
South Island Pied Oystercatcher ()
Range: New Zealand, coastal SE Australia
Blackish Oystercatcher (Haematopus ater)
Range: coastal southern and western South
America
Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)
Range: coastal Australia
Ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii)
Range: south-central Asia
Black-winged Stilt
(Himantopus himantopus)
Range: worldwide
Black Stilt (Himantopus novaezelandiae)
Range: New Zealand
Banded Stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus)
Range: southern Australia
Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Range: Africa, Eurasia
American Avocet
(Recurvirostra americana)
Range: North America
Red-necked Avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae)
Range: Australia
Andean Avocet (Recurvirostra andina)
Range: central Andes, South America
Stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus)
Range: Europe, southwestern Asia, north
Africa
Senegal Thick-knee (Burhinus senegalensis)
Range: central Africa
Water Dikkop (Burhinus vermiculatus)
Range: subsaharan Africa
Spotted Dikkop (Burhinus capensis)
Range: subsaharan Africa
Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus)
Range: C America, Northern S America,
Caribbean
Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris)
Range: coastal Peru, S America
Bush Thick-knee (Burhinus magnirostris)
Range: Australia
Great Thick-knee Esacus (Burhinus recurvirostris)
Range: India, Malaysia
Beach Thick-knee Esacus (Burhinus magnirostris)
Range: from southern Malaysia through
Australia
Egytian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius
Range: subsaharan Africa (local)
Two-banded Courser Rhinoptilus africanus
Range: E and S Africa
Heuglin's Courser Rhinoptilus cinctus
Range: E Africa
Violet-tipped Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
Range: subsaharan Africa
Jerdon's Courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
Range: SE India
Cream-colored Courser Cursoius cursor
Range: saharan Africa
Burchell's Courser Cursoius rufus
Range: S Africa, and horn of Africa
Indian Courser Cursoius coromandelicus
Range: India
Temminick's Courser Cursoius temminckii
Range: subsaharan Africa
Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella
Range: Indonesia, Australia
Common Pratincole Glareola pratincola
Range: Europe, european Asia, Africa
Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
Range: southern Asia through Australia
Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni
Range: european Asia, Africa
Madagascar Pratincole Glareola ocularis
Range: Madagascar, adjacent Africa
Rock Pratincole Glareola nuchalis
Range: subsaharan Africa
Grey Pratincole Glareola cinerea
Range: WC Africa
Little Pratincole Glareola lactea
Range: India and Malaysia
Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
Range: Eurasia
Long-toed Lapwing (Vanellus crassirostris)
Range: SE Africa
Blacksmith Plover (Vanellus spinosus)
Range: S Africa
Spur-winged Plover (Vanellus spinosus)
Range: C Africa, Nile River Valley, adjacent
S Asia
River Lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)
Range: SE Asia
Black-headed Plover (Vanellus tectus)
Range: C Africa just south of the sahara
Yellow-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus)
Range: India
Senegal Wattled Plover (Vanellus senegallus)
Range: subsaharan Africa
White-headed Lapwing (Vanellus albiceps)
Range: subsaharan Africa
Senegal Plover (Vanellus lugubris)
Range: SC Africa
Black-winged Plover (Vanellus melanopterus)
Range: E Africa
Brown-chested Plover (Vanellus superciliosus)
Range: C Africa
Spot-breasted Plover (Vanellus melanocephalus)
Range: local in NE Africa
Sociable Plover (Vanellus gregarius)
Range: european Asia, SW Asia, NE Africa
White-tailed Plover (Vanellus leucurus)
Range: european Asia, SW Asia, NE Africa
Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)
Range: S and E Africa
Pied Plover (Vanellus cayanus)
Range: Central and northern S America
Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
Range: S America
Andean Lapwing (Vanellus resplendens)
Range: C Andes, S America
Grey-headed Lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
Range: northeastern China, Japan, Malaysia
Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
Range: S Asia
Javanese Wattled Lapwing (Vanellus macropterus)
Range: Java
Banded Lapwing (Vanellus tricolor)
Range: S Australia
Masked Lapwing
(Vanellus miles)
Range: E Australiasia, New Zealand to
New Guinea
Eurasian Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Range: Europe and W Asia
Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
Range: Pacific rim, Australasia
American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
Range: Americas
Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Range: Asia, Africa, Greenland and adjacent
N America
Semi-palmated
Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
Range: Americas
Long-billed Plover (Charadrius placidus)
Range: E Asia
Little
Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Range: Eurasia, Indonesia, Africa
Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia)
Range: southern N America to northern
S America
Killdeer (Charadrius
vociferus)
Range: North America through northern
South America
Piping Plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Range: E and Central North America
Black-banded Sandplover (Charadrius thoracicus)
Range: S Madagascar
Kittlitz's Sandplover (Charadrius pecuarius)
Range: subsaharan Africa
St. Helena Plover (Charadrius sanctaehelenae)
Range: St. Helena Island in Atlantic off
Africa
Three-banded Plover (Charadrius tricollaris)
Range: central E and S Africa
Forbes's Plover Charadrius forbesi
Range: CW Africa
Snowy (Kentish)
Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
Range: world wide
White-fronted Sandplover (Charadrius marginatus)
Range: subsaharan Africa
Red-capped Plover (Charadrius ruficapillus)
Range: Australia
Malaysian Plover (Charadrius peronii)
Range: S Malaysia, Indonesia
Chestnut-banded Sandplover (Charadrius
pallidus)
Range: S Africa
Collared Plover (Charadrius collaris)
Range: C and S America
Puna Plover (Charadrius alticola)
Range: C Andes, S America
Double-banded Plover (Charadrius bicinctus)
Range: Australia, New Zealand
Two-banded Plover (Charadrius falklandicus)
Range: coastal southern S America
Lesser [Mongolian]
Sandplover (Charadrius mongolus)
Range: Asia through Australia and E Africa
Greater Sandplover
(Charadrius leschenaultii)
Range: Asia through Australia and E Africa
Caspian Plover (Charadrius asiaticus)
Range: Asia, E Africa
Oriental Plover (Charadrius veredus)
Range: E Asia through Australia
Rufous-chested Dotterel (Charadrius modestus)
Range: southern S America
Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus)
Range: western N America
Black-fronted Plover (Charadrius melanops)
Range: Australia, New Zealand
Red-kneed Dotterel (Charadrius cinctus)
Range: Australia
Hooded Plover (Charadrius rubricollis)
Range: S Australia
Shore Plover (Thinornis novaeseelandiae)
Range: Chatham Islands off New Zeland
Wrybill (Anarhynchus
frontalis)
Range: New Zealand
Diademed Plover (Phegornis mitchellii)
Range: Andes, S America
Inland Dotterel (Peltohyas australis)
Range: Australia
Eurasian Dotterel (Eudromias morinellus)
Range: Eurasia, N Africa
Tawny-throated Dotterel (Oreopholus ruficollis)
Range: western and southern S America
Magellanic Plover (Pluvianellus socialis)
Range: southern S America
Black-tailed
Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Range: Eurasia, Africa, India, SE Asia
and Australia
Little Curlew Numenius minutus
Range: Asia through Australia
Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis
Range: North and South America locally
(possibly extinct?)
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
Range: world wide
Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis
Range: western Alaska (North America)
and southern Pacific islands
Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris
Range: extremely local in central Asia
and northern Africa (range essentially unknown at this point)
Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
Range: Eurasia through Africa
Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
Range: north east Asia through Australia
Long-billed Curlew
Numenius americanus
Range: North America
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Range: North and South America
Common Redshank
(Tringa totanus)
Range: Asia and Africa
Marsh Sandpiper
(Tringa
stagnatilis)
Range: Asia, Africa, Australia
Common Greenshank
(Tringa nebularia)
Range: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
Nordmann's (Spotted) Greenshank (Tringa
guttifer)
Range: coastal E and SE Asia
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Range: Americas
Lesser Yellowlegs
(Tringa flavipes)
Range: Americas
Green Sandpiper
(Tringa ochropus)
Range: Asia and Africa
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Range: Americas
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
Range: Old world
Eastern Willet
(Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus)
Range: Eastern North America (coastal)
Western Willet
(Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatus)
Range: Western and Central North America
Terek Sandpiper
(Xenus cinereus)
Range: Old World
Common Sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucos)
Range: Old world
Spotted Sandpiper
(Actitis macularia)
Range: Americas
Grey-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes)
Range: E Asia through Australia
Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus)
Range: western N America, S Pacific
Tuamotu Sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata)
Range: Tuamotu island in central Pacific
White-winged Sandpiper (Prosobonia leucoptera)
Range: ? Extinct?
Ruddy Turnstone
(Arenaria interpres)
Range: world wide
Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
Range: western N America
Dusky Woodcock (Scolopax saturata)
Range: Indonesia
Celebes Woodcock (Scolopax celebensis)
Range: Celebes islands
Bukidnon Woodcock (Scolopax bukidnonensis)
Range: Philippines - central and northern
Luzon and four mountains on Mindanao.
Obi Woodcock (Scolopax rochussenii)
Range: locally Indonesia, probably extinct
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
Range: Eastern North America
Subantarctic
Snipe [New Zealand] Snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica)
Range: Subantarctic island south of New
Zealand
Chatham Islands Snipe (Coenocorypha pusilla)
Range: The Chatham Islands off New Zealand
Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
Range: Eastern Asia
Japanese Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
Range: Japan to Eastern Australia
Wood Snipe (Gallinago nemoricola)
Range: SE Asia through India
Pintail Snipe (Gallinago stenura)
Range: Central and Eastern Asia
Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)
Range: Eastern Asia to Northern Australia
African Snipe (Gallinago nigripennis)
Range: Subsaharan eastern Africa
Madagascar Snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla)
Range: Madagascar
Great Snipe (Gallinago media)
Range: Europe, European Asia, Africa
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Range: Old World (Europe, Asia) north
of equator
Wilson's Snipe
(Gallinago gallinago delicata)
Range: North America
Magellan Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae)
Range: South America
Noble Snipe (Gallinago nobilis)
Range: northwestern South America
Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata)
Range: northern and east central South
America
Cordilleran Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii)
Range: southern South America
Andean Snipe (Gallinago jamesoni)
Range: northern Andes, South America
Imperial Snipe (Gallinago imperialis)
Range: local, Peru, South America
Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
Range: Eurasia, Africa
Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
Range: eastern Asia through Australia
Least Sandpiper
(Calidris minutilla)
Range: North America, Central America
and South America
White-rumped
Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
Range: The Americas
Baird's Sandpiper
(Calidris bairdii)
Range: The Americas
Pectoral Sandpiper
(Calidris melanotos)
Range: The Americas, east Asia through
Australia
Sharp-tailed
Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
Range: eastern Asia to Australia
[Cox's Sandpiper 'Calidris paramelanotos']
Now confirmed by DNA analysis as a Curlew
Sandpiper x Pectoral Sandpiper hybrid
Most regularly encountered in southern
Australia
Purple Sandpiper
(Calidris maritima)
Range: coastal northwestern Eurasia and
eastern North America
Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis)
Range: northern Pacific basin, Japan to
central California
Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus
pygmaeus)
Range: coastal eastern Siberia through
southern Asia
Broad-billed Sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus)
Range: northern Europe, Asia, though Australia
Stilt Sandpiper
(Micropalama himantopus)
Range: The Americas
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
(Tryngites
subruficollis)
Range: North, Central and South America
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Range: Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa)
Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis gayi)
Range: western S America
White-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis malouinus)
Range: southern S America
Grey-breasted Seedsnipe (Thinocorus orbignyianus)
Range: western S America
Least Seedsnipe (Thinocorus rumicivorus)
Range: western and southern S America