Order CHARADRIIFORMES

Waders
Borneo is visited in the non-breeding season by large number of Palaearctic waders. They breed in northern or eastern or central Asia and winter in southern and South-East Asia or even further south in the Moluccas or northern Australia. Only one wader (the Malaysian Plover) is known to breed in our area. The rest sweep down in Aug and Sep, some remaining with us through the winter, others passing on further south. They are walking and running birds of small to medium size, often with long legs, and they are essentially birds of open country. Nearly all of them are more or less closely associated with water and wet places; some prefer the open beaches and mudflats of the coast and islands; others (Common Sandpipers, Little Ringed Plover) are birds of the rivers; others again (Wood Sandpiper, Snipe) prefers marshes and wet padi fields; a few (Grey and Golden Plovers, Snipe) may be found on dry ground where there is short grass, They are mostly birds of rapid flights with quick wing-action, the wings being usually rather pointed and appearing angled in flight because they are not extended to the full. The legs are extended beneath the tail in flight.

The summer and winter plumages of waders often differs conspicuously. The time of moulting being very erratic, adults in nearly complete winter and nearly complete summer plumages may be seen together, and, as the juvenile are often more or less distinct from either, field identification of some species is often rather puzzling. (Smythies, The Birds of Borneo, 1999)

Photographed Species

Scientific Name	Common Name	Link
(Actitis hypoleucos)	Common Sandpiper	Image
(Arenaria interpres)	Ruddy Turnstone	Image
(Calidris acuminata)	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Image
(Calidris alba)	Sanderling	Image
(Calidris canutus)	Red Knot	Image
(Calidris ferruginea)	Curlew Sandpiper	Image
(Calidris minuta)	Little Stint	Image
(Calidris pugnax)	Ruff	Image
(Calidris ruficollis)	Red-necked Stint	Image
(Calidris subminuta)	Long-toed Stint	Image
(Calidris temminckii)	Temminck's Stint	Image
(Calidris tenuirostris)	Great Knot	Image
(Gallinago gallinago)	Common Snipe	Image
(Gallinago stenura)	Pintail Snipe	Image
(Limicola falacinellus)	Broad-billed Sandpiper	Image
(Limnodromus semipalmatus)	Asian Dowitcher	Image
(Limosa lapponica baueri)	Bar-tailed Godwit	Image
(Limosa limosa)	Black-tailed Godwit	Image
(Numenius arquata)	Eurasian Curlew	Image
(Numenius madagascariensis)	Far Eastern Curlew	Image
(Numenius phaeopus variegatus)	Eurasian Whimbrel	Image
(Phalaropus lobatus)	Red-necked Phalarope	Image
(Recurvirostra avosetta)	Pied Avocet	Image
(Rostrayula benghalensis)	Greater Painted Snipe	Male	Female
(Tringa brevipes)	Grey-tailed Tattler	Image
(Tringa erythropus)	Spotted Redshank	Image
(Tringa glareola)	Wood Sandpiper	Image
(Tringa guttifer)	Nordmann's Greenshank	Image
(Tringa nebularia)	Common Greenshank	Image
(Tringa stagnatilis)	Marsh Sandpiper	Image
(Tringa totanus)	Common Redshank	Image
(Xenus cinereus)	Terek Sandpiper	Image