Smaller sandpipers & allies
0 in Malaysia
Malaysian Plover
Small plover with white collar, variegated pale brown upperparts and pale pinkish or yellowish legs.
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Marsh Sandpiper
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.
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Small Buttonquail
First recorded in Peninsular Malaysia in 2006, in Kedah, and has subsequently been observed in Perlis, Pulau Pinang, Perak and Selangor, suggesting recent colonisation from populations to the north. No records from Bornean Malaysia. Smaller than Barred Buttonquail, from which best distinguished by pink legs and paler overall colouration.
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Black-tailed Godwit
Small, neat, long-legged godwit with long, straight, blob-tipped, pink-based bill.
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Green Sandpiper
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Long-billed Dowitcher
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Common Greenshank
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.
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Siberian Sand Plover
Very similar to Greater Sand Plover and Tibetan Sand Plover but has shorter, more blunt-tipped bill and slightly shorter legs and usually shows dusky flank markings.
Read More »
0 in Malaysia
Australian Pratincole
Extremely rare austral winter/spring vagrant to Bornean Malaysia, with just two records: "flocks around Kuching", Sarawak, including one collected, in Sept 1951, and three in Kota Belud, Sabah, on 1 Aug 1987. Very long-legged, long-winged pratincole with short, square tail.
Read More »

