Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
The Common Sandpiper breeds throughout most of Europe and much of central and northern Asia.
Common Sandpiper
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Common Sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos) syn (Actitis hypoleucos) is a winter visitor and a probable resident. Size: 20 cm
Anseriformes
Apodiformes ...
Common sandpipers are small to medium sized birds, but they have relatively long legs that they put to good use. When seen running in groups the birds appear to display a remarkable coordination of movement.
Common sandpiper
A smallish wader with contrasting brown upperparts and white underparts. It habitually bobs up and down, known as 'teetering', and has a distinctive flight with stiff, bowed wings. Its presence is o... More...
Curlew ...
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
Barn owl (Tyto alba)
Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides) ...
' To the latter belong the Greenshank and Redshank, as well as the Common Sandpiper, the " Summer-Snipe " above-mentioned, a bird hardly exceeding a skylark in size, and of very general distribution throughout the British Islands, ...
At the first beach stop I had Common Sandpiper two Sacred Kingfishers, Ruddy Turnstones, Lapwings. At the Equestrian Club gate: Imperial Pigeon, Bar-shouldered Dove, Peaceful Dove, Rainbow Bee-eater.
The Eurasian Common Sandpiper, a rare migrant, is very similar to basic and juvenile-plumaged Spotted Sandpipers.
Redshank, Lesser Redshank, Iceland Redshank, Eastern Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Teuke
Bird Family :
Tringinae - Godwits, curlews, shanks, sandpipers, tattlers, turnstones, dowitchers, knots,stints, dunlin, ruff, & phalaropes ...
The tail is dark with white on the outside. The legs are yellow bill is orange with a dark tip. Non-breeding birds, do not have the spots on the underside and look very similar to the Common Sandpiper ...
Actitis hypoleucos - Common Sandpiper (photo)
Actitis macularia - Spotted Sandpiper
Stercorariidae - Jaegers, Skuas
Stercorarius
Stercorarius pomarinus - Pomarine Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticus - Arctic Skua ...
 See also: Sandpiper, Curlew, Flamingo, Swallow, Golden Plover
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