WADERS OF THE WORLD-
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Waders/Shorebirds have overtaken seabirds as our most favoured birds and in our travels we have seen and photographed most of the
world's species. Usually easy to view and photograph, with one or two notable exceptions, we can still go
on a trip sometimes and see the odd new species, although options are getting fewer. If you're a world lister
the majority are fairly easy, but there are several endemics requiring visits to remote islands, the two most notable being
Tuamotu Sandpiper and (NZ) Shore Plover. We're still
adding photos, especially when I get a better shot of something, so do re-visit occasionally if
you like waders. Having started travelling again post-covid I have finally seen my 200th wader, Caspian Plover,
and now have photos of Mountain Plover and Wilson's Snipe. Better photos of several other species have been uploaded, and I've recently
added Malaysian and White-faced Plovers. A trip to Thailand earlier this year finally replaced my 1989 record shot of Spoon-billed Sandpiper.
I now use Avilist taxonomy, but have kept to the order we all know and love, primarily because jacanas are more
interesting than thicknees. There have been recent changes to the names of genera, notably Charadrius have
become Anarhynchus, but I won't always rush to make such changes. Also included are one or two potential splits,
or forms which are distinctive. At a later date I may fully incorporate the new Avilist taxonomy, but the main differences
lie in the order, which now includes buttonquails and sheathbills. I will not include the former, as I have few photos, but a sheathbill may
occur from time to time as it aids the layout. Let's face it, if it looks like a Buttonquail and behaves like a Buttonquail it ain't a wader!
Last updated September 2026.
