Elegant sandpiper with long yellowish legs and medium length, straight bill. Upperparts dark brown, spangled with white spots. In flight, above, wings and back dark; square white rump and barred tail. Below, underwing coverts are finely barred. Feet project beyond tail in flight.

Small plover with white collar, variegated pale brown upperparts and pale pinkish or yellowish legs.

Similar to Kentish Plover, but heavier-billed and paler above, with shorter lateral breast patches, broader white nuchal collar; lores and lower ear coverts mostly white.

Large, streak-backed shorebird with very long, pink-based, slightly upturned bill and relatively short black legs.

Larger and longer-legged than ‘white-collared’ plovers.

Small, short-legged, stint-like sandpiper with longish, thick bill which droops at the tip. Bold head pattern in all plumages.