The sharp-tailed sandpiper is a small-medium migratory wader or shorebird, found mostly in Siberia during the summer breeding period and Australia for wintering.
Image: Calidris acuminata Hexham Swamp
Image: Sharp tailed Sandpiper Boat Harbour
A flock of sharp-tailed sandpipers foraging
The ruff is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.
Image: Philomachus pugnax Diergaarde Blijdorp 8c
Image: Ruff female RWD
Michael Conrad Hirt's seventeenth-century painting of a woman wearing a ruff, the decorative collar from which the English name of the bird is derived.
Territorial male in breeding plumage