Small, stocky shorebird with dark breastband, short orange legs and unique wedge-shaped bill.

Small plover with white collar, plain pale brown upperparts. Shorter legs than sand-plovers. Breastband usually incomplete.

Elegant white and grey/brown sandpiper with medium-length, slightly upcurved bill and long green-yellow legs. In flight, toes project beyond tail. From above, plain darkish wings and scapulars contrast with white back and rump and whitish, barred tail. From below, wing coverts well-barred.

Delicate, elegant sandpiper with long yellowish legs and needle-like bill. White supercilium and darker cap evident in most plumages. In flight, entire foot projects beyond tail and underwing coverts are mostly white.

Cryptically patterned, long-billed snipe with prominent white trailing wing edge in flight.

Medium-sized, stocky shorebird with short, straight bill and short, olive-coloured legs.

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

The largest Pluvialis plover, heavily spangled upperparts lack strong yellow tones.

Similar in size to Black-tailed Godwit, with black legs intermediate in length between Bar-tailed and Black-tailed Godwits. Bill largely black, straight and slightly blob-tipped.