The Wading Birds Of South Africa's Waters And Marshes
Waders Of South Africa
The waders of South Africa! A superb concentration of interesting wetland birds. There are a lot of South African birds that fall into the wading birds class. Waders are fascinating and they are some of the more interesting South African birds to watch. There are even nocturnal waders! Can you Believe it! What a fascinating array of waders we have in South Africa and the full list of all the wading bird species is directly below.
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- Crab Plover
- African Black Oystercatcher
- Eurasian (European) Oystercatcher
- Black-Winged Stilt
- Pied Avocet
- Common Ringed Plover
- Three-Banded Plover
- Kittlitz's Plover
- Caspian Plover
- Chestnut-Banded Plover
- White-Fronted Plover
- Greater Sand Plover
- Lesser Sand (Mongolian) Plover
- Crowned Lapwing (Plover)
- Black-Winged Lapwing (Plover)
- Senegal Lapwing (Lesser Black-Winged Plover)
- Long-Toed Lapwing (Plover)
- White-Crowned Lapwing (Plover)
- African Wattled Lapwing (Plover)
- Blacksmith Lapwing (Plover)
- Grey Plover
- American Golden Plover
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Ruff
- Buff-Breasted Sandpiper
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Great Knot
- Red Knot
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dunlin
- Sanderling
- Broad-Billed Sandpiper
- White-Rumped Sandpiper
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Little Stint
- Red-Necked Stint
- Temminck's Stint
- Long-Toed Stint
- Common Sandpiper
- Green Sandpiper
- Wood Sandpiper
- Terek Sandpiper
- Common Redshank
- Spotted Redshank
- Common Greenshank
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Bar-Tailed Godwit
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Black-Tailed Godwit
- Common Whimbrel
- Eurasian Curlew
- Greater Painted-Snipe
- African (Ethiopian) Snipe
- Great Snipe
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Red-Necked Phalarope
- Red (Grey) Phalarope
- Wilson's Phalarope
- Collared (Red-Winged) Pratincole
- Black-Winged Pratincole
- Rock Pratincole
- Spotted Thick-Knee (Dikkop)
- Water Thick-Knee (Dikkop)
- Temminck's Courser
- Burchell's Courser
- Double-Banded Courser
- Bronze-Winged Courser
