Species list
Shorebirds of Australia: residents, regular migrants, and vagrants
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Residents
Pied Oystercatcher. © 2009 Glenn Ehmke.
Bush Stone-curlew
Beach Stone-curlew
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
Sooty Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Red-necked Avocet
Banded Stilt
Red-capped Plover
Inland Dotterel
Inland Dotterel. © 2009 Dean Ingwersen.
Black-fronted Dotterel
Hooded Plover
Red-kneed Dotterel
Banded Lapwing
Masked Lapwing
Plains-wanderer
Comb-crested Jacana
Australian Painted Snipe
Regular Migrants
Latham's Snipe. © 2009 Chris Tzaros.
Pacific Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Double-banded Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Greater Sand Plover
Oriental Plover
Latham’s Snipe
Pin-tailed Snipe*
Swinhoe’s Snipe
Ruddy Turnstone. © 2009 Chris Tzaros.
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Little Curlew
Whimbrel
Eastern Curlew
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Grey-tailed Tattler
Wandering Tattler
Asian Dowitcher. © 2006 Ricki Coughlan.
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Wood Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Asian Dowitcher
Great Knot
Red Knot
Sanderling
Ruff. © 2009 Dean Ingwersen.
Red-necked Stint
Long-toed Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Ruff
Red-necked Phalarope
Oriental Pratincole
Australian Pratincole**
Vagrants
Little Ringed Plover. © 2008 Adrian Boyle.
South Island Pied Oystercatcher
American Golden Plover
Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover*
Kentish Plover
Caspian Plover
Grey-headed Lapwing
Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Hudsonian Godwit
Common Redshank. © 2004 Adrian Boyle.
Eurasian Curlew
Upland Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Nordmann’s Greenshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Short-billed Dowitcher
Little Stint*
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Grey Phalarope
*Status as regular or vagrant not agreed among sources.
**Australian Pratincoles are migratory with some moving to Indonesia and New Guinea during the non-breeding season, while some remain year round, but because it breeds in Australia it is often lumped with residents.