Birds of Oman

Whimbrel Eurasian Curlew Slender-billed Curlew Far Eastern Curlew juv ad ad orientalis ad ad winter ...

100 PLATE 43: SANDPIPERS I Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus PM, WV L: 30. W: 64. Medium-sized, rather slim wader with red legs ...

Spotted Redshank Common Redshank Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Lesser Yellowlegs winter winter winter winter 1st-winter ad s ...

102 PLATE 44: SANDPIPERS II Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus PM, WV L: 23. W: 59. Distinguished by call and contrasting black-and ...

Green Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Terek Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone winter winter winter winter winter winter ad sum ...

104 PLATE 45: SANDPIPERS III Little Stint Calidris minuta PM, WV L: 13. W: 30. Abundant in region. Almost always has dark bill a ...

Little Stint Temminck’s Stint Long-toed Stint Sanderling winter winter winter winter winter ad summer ad summer ad summer ad spr ...

106 PLATE 46: SANDPIPERS IV Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris pm, wv L: 27. W: 55. Like large Red Knot, similarly stocky build bu ...

Great Knot Red Knot Curlew Sandpiper Dunlin Broad-billed Sandpiper winter winter winter winter winter winter ad summer ad summer ...

108 PLATE 47: RARE SANDPIPERS AND PAINTED-SNIPE Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris bairdii V L: 15. W: 38. Fairly small sandpiper with d ...

Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper ad juv juv winter Greater Painted-snipe   ...

110 PLATE 48: RUFF AND PHALAROPES Ruff Calidris pugnax PM, WV L: 28 (male); 22 (female). W: 56 (male). Male about size of Common ...

Ruff Wilson’s Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope winter winter winter winter winter juv juv juv/1st-winter 1st-winter ...

112 PLATE 49: COURSER AND PRATINCOLES Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor PM, WV, rb L: 24. W: 54. Sandy-buff with distincti ...

Collared Pratincole Cream-coloured Courser Oriental Pratincole Black-winged Pratincole Small Pratincole ad ad ad ad ad juv imm ...

114 PLATE 50: NODDIES AND SKIMMERS Brown Noddy Anous stolidus sv, mb L: 43. W: 83. Size of Sandwich Tern with long, wedge-shaped ...

Brown Noddy Lesser Noddy African Skimmer Indian Skimmer ad ad juv juv juv juv ad winter ad winter ad summer ad summer ...

116 PLATE 51: GULLS I Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus V L: 43. W: 100. Slightly larger and heavier than Black-h ...

Brown-headed Gull Black-headed Gull Slender-billed Gull Sabine’s Gull Black-legged Kittiwake ad winter ad winter 1st-winter 1st- ...

118 PLATE 52: GULLS II Pallas’s Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus WV L: 68. W: 158. Very large; adult in summer unmistakable. In wint ...