How many shorebirds/waders have you seen? (1 Viewer)

timsg80 · Nov 4, 2012

This includes snipes, sandpiper, phalaropes, e.t.c; painted snipe; jacanas; seedsnipe; plains wanderer; thick-knees; sheathbills; ibisbill; avocets; stilts; oystercatchers and plovers.

I am up to 87 with short-billed dowitcher at Lodmoor, UK.

Highlight was definitely black stilt in New Zealand.

Mysticete · Nov 4, 2012

2 Thick-knees
4 Golden-Plovers
6 Oystercatchers
5 Stilts and Avocets
23 Plovers and Lapwings
1 Buttonquail
1 Pratincole
55 Sandpipers
1 Jacana

So about 98 total, with Pectoral Sandpiper the most recent. Probably will have an opportunity to do some international travel this year (Madrid? NZ/Australia? Panama?), so hopefully get a few more species soon.

Jon Turner · Nov 4, 2012

'bout 84, 66 in the UK.

Jacana · Nov 5, 2012

1 Buttonquail
2 Stone-Curlews
2 Oystercatchers
2 Stilts & Avocets
17 Plovers
2 Jacanas
36 Sandpipers
1 Pratincole

which i think takes me to 63 (plus the rapidly fading hope of White-faced Plover being a valid species)

last one was Kittlitz's Plover in South Africa

Alf King · Nov 5, 2012

Thousands, or did you mean species?

chris butterworth · Nov 5, 2012

There is already a thread on this group here :-

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=205009

Chris

Nohatch · Nov 5, 2012

So without Turnicidae, Glareolidae, gulls & auks then?

Snowy Sheathbill
Magellanic Oystercatcher
Blackish Oystercatcher
American Oystercatcher
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Black-necked Stilt
Pied Avocet
Northern Lapwing
Southern Lapwing
European Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Killdeer
Kentish Plover
Rufous-chested Plover
Northern Jacana
Eurasian Woodcock
Common Snipe
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Spotted Redshank
Common Redshank
Common Greenshank
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Green Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Willet
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Ruff
Red-necked Phalarope

Makes 44 in total. If we include all Charadriiformes I can add another 38:

Black-legged Kittiwake
Brown-hooded Gull
Black-headed Gull
Dolphin Gull
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Kelp Gull
Glaucous Gull
Iceland Gull
European Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Little Tern
Least Tern
Roseate Tern
South American Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Antarctic Tern
Black Tern
Chilean Skua
South Polar Skua
Brown Skua
Great Skua
Parasitic Jaeger
Little Auk
Thick-billed Murre
Common Murre
Razorbill
Black Guillemot
Atlantic Puffin

Microtus · Nov 6, 2012

9 plovers
3 golden-plovers
3 oystercatchers
2 recurivrostrids
44 scolopacids

Jacana · Nov 25, 2022

Well, why not revive this series of posts from a decade ago!

Jacana said:
1 Buttonquail
2 Stone-Curlews
2 Oystercatchers
2 Stilts & Avocets
17 Plovers
2 Jacanas
36 Sandpipers
1 Pratincole

which i think takes me to 63 (plus the rapidly fading hope of White-faced Plover being a valid species)

last one was Kittlitz's Plover in South Africa

I've added quite a few in the last 10 years:

Buttonquail: 3
Stone-curlews: 5
Oystercatchers: 4
Ibisbill: 1
Stilts & Avocets: 3
Plovers: 33
Jacanas: 4
Sandpipers et al: 43
Crab-plover: 1
Coursers & Pratincoles: 4

Which takes me to 101, so 38 species in the last 10 years (37 if we ignore the White-faced Plover armchair tick).

Farnboro John · Nov 25, 2022

I hadn't counted before but 113 worldwide, 78 Western Palaearctic and 69 in Britain (still need Caspian Plover which would be a world tick).

John

Mysticete · Nov 25, 2022

Mysticete said:
2 Thick-knees
4 Golden-Plovers
6 Oystercatchers
5 Stilts and Avocets
23 Plovers and Lapwings
1 Buttonquail
1 Pratincole
55 Sandpipers
1 Jacana

So about 98 total, with Pectoral Sandpiper the most recent. Probably will have an opportunity to do some international travel this year (Madrid? NZ/Australia? Panama?), so hopefully get a few more species soon.

Currently I am at:

2 Thick-knees
4 Golden-Plovers
8 Oystercatchers
5 Stilts and Avocets
28 Plovers and Lapwings
1 Buttonquail
1 Pratincole
57 Sandpipers
2 Jacana

So I've added 2 Oystercatchers, 5 plovers, 2 sandpipers, and 1 Jacana

Since I first posted this list, I've been to New Zealand, a second trip to Australia, and Panama. Plus knocked off a couple of ABA birds I hadn't seen yet (Buff-breasted and Purple Sandpiper to be specific).

I don't expect this list to change significantly in the next few years, although I expect I'll add Andean Lapwing and if I am really lucky a snipe or two in Ecuador this summer.

Steve Lister · Nov 25, 2022

170 for me. Still lacking a lot of snipe.

Jeff Hopkins · Nov 26, 2022

1 Sheathbill
1 Magellanic Plover
8 Thick-knees
8 Oystercatchers
5 Stilts and Avocets
50 Plovers and Lapwings
1 Seedsnipe
1 Ibisbill
1 Painted-snipe
3 Buttonquail
1 Crab-plover
6 Pratincoles & Coursers
70 Sandpipers
7 Jacana

That's 163.

Welsh Peregrine · Nov 26, 2022

7 Thick-knees
1 Sheathbill
Magellanic Plover
Egyptian Plover
7 Oystercatchers
Ibisbill
7 Stilts and Avocets
49 Plovers
3 Seedsnipe
2 Painted Snipe
5 Jacanas
63 Sandpipers
3 Buttonquail
Crab Plover
9 Pratincoles and Coursers
Total 160 species

Andy Adcock · Nov 26, 2022

Paul Chapman · Nov 26, 2022

76 wader species on my British & Irish list. Some work to do to ascertain any additional World species but 12 additions from 42 species seen on a Thailand trip earlier this month was a substantial dent in omissions:-
Indian Thick-knee*
Grey-headed Lapwing*
Malaysian Plover*
White-faced Plover*
Greater Painted Snipe*
Pheasant-tailed Jacana*
Bronze-winged Jacana*
Far Eastern Curlew
Spoon-billed Sandpiper*
Asiatic Dowitcher*
Pin-tailed Snipe
Nordmann's Greenshank*

All the best

Paul

Farnboro John · Nov 26, 2022

Farnboro John said:
I hadn't counted before but 113 worldwide, 78 Western Palaearctic and 69 in Britain (still need Caspian Plover which would be a world tick).

John

Left this too late to correct in post but Paul's declared UK score alerted me to the fact that I must have miscounted my UK wader score - and I had.

76 in Britain. Caspian Plover the missing one. (If anyone saw a brief mention of 77, I'd misjudged again and accidentally included an extra line: I do know Great Bustard is not a wader!)

John

Andy Adcock · Nov 26, 2022

At one point, David Rosair had seen all the waders in the World until some stuff got split.

DMW · Nov 26, 2022

Andy Adcock said:
At one point, David Rosair had seen all the waders in the World until some stuff got split.

Would be impressive to have seen all the Indonesian woodcocks and Fuegian Snipe, even before splitting the Sub-Antarctic Snipe.

Welsh Peregrine · Nov 26, 2022

And presumably this didn’t include Buttonquail where there are some very tricky species, or Javan Lapwing.

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