Gallery - Waders-Vagrants
Vagrants
Normally these birds are Transatlantic Vagrants but we do get birds from Asia as well.
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Transatlantic Vagrant, slightly smaller North American version of the Redshank. Obviously with the Yellow legs.
Wilsons Phalaropes (Phalaropus tricolor)
A vagrant from North America
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
Transatlantic vagrant, named from patially webbed toes.
Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
A transatlantic vagrant wader.
Spotted Sandpiper (Actis macularia)
The North American counterpart of the Common Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)
Lost bird on migration from the Russian Steppes who should be heading to West Africa.
Least Sandpiper (Cadris minutilla)
North American Vagrant, averages 1 a year in the UK
Bairds Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
Vagrant from North America
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis)
Vagrant from North America
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Visitor from North America
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