Identifying Waders
Wandering Tattler © 2010 Jon Coleman
Identifying waders is broken into two sections, one covering the regularly seen Australian species and another section covering the rarer and vagrant species.
We will be adding to this section as time goes by so come back or check the “What’s New” section. You can select a species account from the web site menu or by clicking on the species in the list below
The waders covered in the sections are:
Waders regularly seen in Australia
- Asian Dowitcher
- Australian Pratincole
- Banded Lapwing
- Banded Stilt
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Beach Stone-curlew
- Black-fronted Dotterel
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Bush Stone-curlew
- Common Sandpiper
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Double-banded Plover
- Eastern Curlew
- Great Knot
- Greater Sand-plover
- Common Greenshank
- Grey Plover
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Hooded Plover
- Inland Plover
- Latham’s Snipe
- Little Curlew
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Masked Lapwing
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Plover
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Painted Snipe
- Pied Oystercatcher
- Pied Stilt
- Red Knot
- Red-capped Plover
- Red-kneed Dotterel
- Red-necked Avocet
- Red-necked Stint
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sanderling
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Siberian Sand-Plover
- Sooty Oystercatcher
- Terek Sandpiper
- Wandering Tattler
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Wood Sandpiper
Waders rarely seen in Australia
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Caspian Plover
- Common Redshank
- Common Ringed Plover
- Cox’s Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Eurasian Curlew
- Green Sandpiper
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-toed Stint
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Pin-tailed Snipe
- Red Phalarope
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Ruff
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Nordmann’s Greenshank
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Swinhoe’s Snipe
- Upland Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Wilson’s Phalarope