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shorebirds
**updated Jan. 2024**
Shorebirds are my third favorite group of birds (behind waders and waterfowl), but perhaps my favorite to photograph.
American shorbs consist of four families in the order Charadriiformes, including:
stilts and avocets, oystercatchers, plovers, and sandpipers.
Click links above to skip to a specific gallery, or scroll down to enjoy them all.
Click any image to enlarge.
stilts & avocets (family Recurvirostridae)
oystercatchers (family Haematopodidae)
lapwings & plovers (family Charadriidae)
sandpipers part 1: curlews, godwits, & turnstones (family Scolopacaidae, various genera)
sandpipers part 2: sandpipers (family Scolopacaidae, genus Calidris)
sandpipers part 3: the rest (more genera in family Scolopacaidae)
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