Terek sandpiper

Several groups had been out looking for Terek Sandpipers, but none had seen them.

We have a chance of seeing the very local breeding Terek Sandpipers, together with other waders coming back from their nesting grounds on the tundra.

Other birds recorded from the bay in significant numbers include black-tailed godwits, greater sand plovers, Terek sandpipers and beach stone-curlews.

I called in at the mouth of the Margaret River where I saw a Terek Sandpiper on the beach.

Another good site for scarcer species and rarities, Broad-billed and Terek Sandpipers are regular.

Tringa cinerea (Terek sandpiper)

Widespread and often quite commonly seen, the Terek sandpiper is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) - several on the mud-flats of Djibouti harbour. 167.

Bird of the year so far was the Terek Sandpiper that was on the beach at Porth Hellick between 11th and 23rd.

Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinerea 4 recorded on the Mandovi Estuary dolphin cruise.

Also at Cemlyn in 2005 were an American golden plover in May and a Terek sandpiper in June.

A walk down to the lake side and then across a muddy track through the reeds, it was not long before we found our target bird, a Terek Sandpiper.

Migrant Greater Sand Plover, Terek Sandpiper and Red-necked Phalarope are also possible.

They are close relatives of the shanks and tattlers, the Actitis and Terek sandpipers, and also of the turnstones and calidrids.

The Terek sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) is a small migratory Palearctic wader species, the only member of the genus Xenus.

The park adjoins Mida Creek, a mangrove forest that is an important shorebird wintering ground, protecting species such as the Terek sandpiper and the crab plover.

These are known to include sharp-tailed sandpiper, red knot, red-necked stint, greater sand plover, grey-tailed tattler, Caspian tern and Terek sandpiper.

As hybridisation in shorebirds is extremely commonplace and Actitis is among the closer relatives of the Terek sandpiper, such pairings (should they indeed occur) may produce hybrid offspring.

I did not meet anyone during my trip who had seen Arctic Warbler nor Terek Sandpiper, and the Bluetails were proving very elusive, although they were being seen.

Other waders for which the site is at least sometimes important include black-tailed godwits, greaters and lesser sand plovers, grey plovers, Terek sandpipers, and Far Eastern curlews.

The Rauchua / Kyttyk wetland area is considered to be the easternmost extent of so-called "Kolyma fauna", such as the Terek sandpiper, brown shrike and scarlet rosefinch.

Both in May and August there is always a chance of the unexpected, and we've seen Terek Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole and Slender-billed Gull in the past.

Thus it may be that the Terek sandpiper under natural conditions may mate with common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos), the Old World sister species of spotted sandpiper (A. macularius).

Our migratory bird population includes the Broad-billed Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and the Terek Sandpiper.

At nearby Lake Alexander we saw Whistling Kite, Pacific Reef-heron, Terek Sandpiper and Straw-necked Ibises with a Yellow-throated Miner in the trees next to the lake.