Scolopacidae
Characterised by long legs and long bills these shorebirds pick on prey that they can find by the edge of the water bodies they inhabit.
20 unique species photographed in this family
Wood Sandpiper
Common Greenshank (Non-breeding)
Green Sandpiper
Ruff (breeding-male)
Common Snipe
Curlew Sandpiper (In flight)
Eurasian Whimbrel
Bar-tailed Godwit
Temminck's Stint
Temminck's Stint
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Long-toed Stint
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Black-tailed Godwit (non-breeding)
Spotted Redshank
Eurasian Curlew (Non-breeding)
On one of the days during our stay in the Farm of Happiness, we made a short tour to a completely untouched beach near Ganapati Pule. This Curlew was eating the tiny translucent crabs that were dashing about on the sand.
Common Sandpiper (in flight)
Sandpipers in formation at Airoli.
Little Stint
Terek Sandpiper
Ruff (female)
Female Ruff preening. Shot at Mangalajodi wetlands in Chilika Lake.
