Shorebirds

Shorebirds (or waders) are typically birds of wetlands, from the taxonomic order

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Bilateral treaties and agreements exist between a number of countries within Asia, the Pacific region and the Americas. These agreements, list the species which migrate between the two countries which are signatories to the agreement. These agreements bind the participating nations to protect the listed species.

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Shorebird Sites

Locate internationally and nationally important sites for migratory shorebirds in Australia. Identify new sites to add to these lists - learn how to conduct a shorebird inventory for your site.

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Migration

Find out about shorebird migration and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
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Table of migratory, resident and vagrant shorebirds PDF Print E-mail

 

Migratory shorebirds

Resident shorebirds

Vagrant shorebirds

Asian Dowitcher
(Limnodromus semipalmatus)

Australian Pratincole
(Stiltia Isabella)#

American GoldenPlover
(Pluvialis dominica)

Bar-tailed Godwit
(Limosa lapponica)

Banded Lapwing
(Vanellus tricolour)

Baird's Sandpiper
(Calidris bairdii)

Black-tailed Godwit
(Limosa limosa)

Banded Stilt
(Cladorhynchus leucocephalus)

Buff-breasted Sandpiper
(Tryngites subruficollis)

Broad-billed Sandpiper
(Limocola falcinellus)

Beach Stone-curlew
(Esacus neglectus)

Caspian Plover
(Charadrius asiaticus)

Common Greenshank
(Tringa nebularia)

Black-fronted Dotterel
(Elseyornis melanops)

Dunlin
(Calidris alpina)

Common Redshank
(Tringa tetanus)

Black-winged Stilt
(Himantopus himantopus)

Green Sandpiper
(Tringa ochropus)

Common Sandpiper
(Actitis hypoleucos)

Bush Stone-curlew
(Burhinus grallarius)

Grey Phalarope
(Phalaropus fulicaria)

Curlew Sandpiper
(Calidris ferruginea)

Comb-crested Jacana
(Irediparra gallinacea)

Hudsonian Godwit
(Limosa haemastica)

Double-banded Plover
(Charadrius bicinctus)

Hooded Plover
(Thinornis rubricollis)

Kentish Plover
(Charadrius alexandrinus)

Eastern Curlew (Numenius
madagascariensis)

Inland Dotterel
(Charadrius australis)

Lesser Yellowlegs
(Tringa flavipes)

Great Knot
(Calidris tenuirostris)

Masked Lapwing
(Vanellis miles)

Little Stint
(Calidris minuta)

Greater Sand Plover
(Charadrius leschenaultii)

Painted Snipe
(Rostratula benghalensis)

Little Ringed Plover
(Charadrius alexandrinus)

Grey Plover
(Pluvialis squatarola)

Pied Oystercatcher
(Haematopus longirostris)

Pheasant-tailed Jacana
(Hydrophasianus chirurgus)

Grey-tailed Tattler
(Heteroscelus brevipes)

Plains-wanderer
(Pedionomus torquatus)

Ringed Plover
(Charadrius hiaticula)

Latham's Snipe
(Gallinago hardwickii)

Red-capped Plover
(Charadrius ruficapillus)

Short-billed Dowitcher
(Limnodromus griseus)

Lesser Sand Plover
(Charadrius mongolus)

Red-kneed Dotterel
(Erythrogonys cinctus)

South Island Pied Oystercatcher
(Haematopus finschi)

Little Curlew
(Numenius minutus)

Red-necked Avocet
(Recurvirostra novaehollandiae)

Spotted Redshank
(Tringa erythropus)

Long-toed Stint
(Calidris subminuta)

Sooty Oystercatcher
(Haemotopus fuliginosus)

Stilt Sandpiper
(Micropalama himantopus)

Marsh Sandpiper
(Tringa stagnatilis)

 

Upland Sandpiper
(Bartramia longicauda)

Oriental Plover
(Charadrius veredus)

 

White-rumped Sandpiper
(Calidris fuscicollis)

Oriental Pratincole
(Glareola maldivarum)

 

Wilson's Phalarope
(Steganopus tricolor)

Pacific Golden Plover
(Pluvialis fulva)

 

 

 

 

 

 

# a few Australian Pratincoles migrate to Indonesia and New Guinea

Pectoral Sandpiper
(Calidris melanotos)

Pin-tailed Snipe - vagrant

Red Knot
(Calidris canutus)

Red-necked Phalarope
(Phalaropus lobatus)

Red-necked Stint
(Calidris ruficollis)

Ruddy Turnstone
(Arenaria interpres)

Ruff
(Philomachus pugnax)

Sanderling
(Calidris alba)

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
(Calidris acuminata)

Swinhoe's Snipe
(Gallinago megala)

Terek Sandpiper
(Xenus cincereus)

Wandering Tattler
(Heteroscelus incanus)

Whimbrel
(Numenius phaeopus)

Wood Sandpiper
(Tringa glareola)
 

 

 
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