In separate family Haematopidae in Urban et al (1986) [details]

Size: smallish. Plumage: like Tringa, but with long rounded tail and prominent wing-bar. Other characters: flight ... [details]

Length: 19 cm. Plumage: above and on sides of neck and chest uniform dark brown; below white extending around bend ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: uniformly dark; tail rounded and heavy. Other characters: tarsus much shorter than middle ... [details]

Length: 36-45 cm. Plumage: most of body sooty brown; white forehead merges into blue- or lavender-grey cap ... [details]

Length: 30-34 cm. Plumage: uniformly dark brown except lighter brown tail; head with whitish forehead merging into ... [details]

Size: medium, thickset. Plumage: black and white patterned; wings long and pointed, tail rounded. Other characters: ... [details]

Length: 21-25 cm. Plumage: above mottled dull or dusky brown and black; below white; sides of face and breast ... [details]

Size: small to medium. Plumage: dull grey or brownish non-breeding plumage; striking breeding plumage; long pointed ... [details]

Length: 19-21 cm. Plumage: pale grey above, white below; grey patch on either side of breast; black shoulder; white ... [details]

Length: 23-25 cm. Plumage: above grey with paler edges to feathers, below white mottled grey on flanks, breast, ... [details]

Length: 18-20 cm. Plumage: grey above with paler edges to feathers; face and sides of chest mottled grey; below and ... [details]

Length: 13-15 cm. Plumage: above grey with paler grey edges to feathers; below white with speckling on breast which ... [details]

Length: 13-16 cm. Plumage: above grey; below white with partial grey band on chest; white superciliary line; ... [details]

Size: large, heavy bodied skuas. Plumage: brown; white patch at base of primaries; wings broad, pointed at tip; ... [details]

Wing length: 39-43 cm. Plumage: above mottled dark brown; below cinnamon brown; flight feathers blackish brown; ... [details]

Size: small to medium. Plumage: usually with some black and white on heads; most with two usually black (but can be ... [details]

Length: 15-17 cm. Plumage: above grey-brown; below white; forehead and band on hindneck white continuous with white ... [details]

Length: 18-22 cm. Plumage: above plain brown below white with brown mottling on breast; head and neck white mottled ... [details]

Length: 18-20 cm. Plumage: non-breeding plain brown above, on crown and patches at sides of chest narrowly joined ... [details]

Length: 18-20 cm. Plumage: above dark greyish brown; below white; forehead and superciliary stripe white, collar ... [details]

Length: 22-25 cm. Plumage: brown above including neck; white below; white forehead continuing into white ... [details]

Length: 16-18 cm. Plumage: above brown or rufous brown; below white tinged buffy or tawny; faint rufous patches on ... [details]

Length: 19-21 cm. Plumage: above grey-brown; no white on hind neck; below white; non-breeding adults with large ... [details]

Length: 12-15 cm. Plumage: grey above; white below; male with narrow chestnut breast band, continuous with chestnut ... [details]

Length: 18 cm. Plumage: dark grey-brown above; white below; forehead and stripe from forehead to hindneck and throat ... [details]

Size: small. Plumage: tail slightly forked, less than half length of wing, no streamers; strong seasonal variation. ... [details]

Length: 20-23 cm. Plumage: back and wings grey with some mottling on wings; tail white; forecrown white, hindcrown ... [details]

Length: 22-24 cm. Plumage: non-breeding bird has upperparts darkish grey; head with black hindcrown and nape ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: black and white. Other characters: heavy, black laterally compressed bill. <389> [details]

Length: 38-41 cm. Plumage: white; back, scapulars and outer webs of primaries black. Immature like adult but ... [details]

Size: relatively large. Plumage: tail short, shallowly forked. Other characters: bill stout, shorter than head, ... [details]

Length: 35-41 cm. Plumage: back, rump and wing pale grey, rest of upperparts white, with black speckling on nape ... [details]

Size: small. Plumage: long pointed wings; forked tail. Other characters: bill small with a wide gape; legs short, ... [details]

Length: 23-25 cm. Plumage: dark brown above to chest; crown darker; upper belly rufous, lower belly and crissum ... [details]

Length: 24-27 cm. Plumage: dark brown above to chest; upper belly ochre, lower belly and crissum white; conspicuous ... [details]

Size: relatively large. Plumage: black and white or all black; wings long and pointed; tail short. Other characters: ... [details]

Length: 41 cm. Plumage: all black. Immature browner than adult. Bare parts: iris red; eyering orange; bill red with an ... [details]

Length: 40-44 cm. Plumage: brownish black to black above to chest; tip of tail black; white below and on back, rump ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: pied; wings long and pointed; outer primary longest, tail short with middle and outer rectrices ... [details]

Length: 38 cm. Plumage: white with glossy black wings and back in male, less glossy in female; deep white V between ... [details]

Size: small to large. Other characters: upper mandible of bill extending slightly beyond lower and down-turned at ... [details]

Length: 56-66 cm. Plumage: back grey; head and below white; outer primaries black with white mirrors on outer two; ... [details]

Length: 41-43 cm. Plumage: back and wings grey; collar on hind neck and underparts white; head with grey hood in ... [details]

Length: 56-60 cm. Plumage: wings and back black; rest of plumage white; white training edge to wing. Immature ... [details]

Length: 51-61 cm. Plumage: wings and back black; rest of plumage white; trailing edge of wing and tips of primaries ... [details]

Length: 44-47 cm. Plumage: above, including hood, brownish grey with narrow white collar over hind neck and white ... [details]

Length: 57-61 cm. Plumage: above, wings and back pale grey with some white edges to wing coverts; head white, hind ... [details]

Length: 45 cm. Plumage: above, back and wings grey, head and V down fore neck to breast black, (white speckling on ... [details]

Length: 34-43 cm. Plumage: back and wings pale grey; rump and tail white; head white with black smudge behind ear; ... [details]

Length: 30-36 cm. Plumage: tail forked; back and wing coverts grey; hindneck, rump and tail white; below all white; ... [details]

Size: small. Plumage: like Calidris. Other character: bill long and flattened between nostril and tip; tip decurved; ... [details]

Length: 16.5-17 cm. Plumage: above uniformly grey with paler edges to feathers; below white with some grey ... [details]

Size: medium large. Plumage: non-breeding grey; breeding darker above, rich chestnut below. Other characters: ... [details]

Length: male 36-38 cm, female 41 cm. Plumage: above mottled brownish grey; below whitish with light streaking on ... [details]

Length: male 40-41 cm, female 50 cm. Plumage: above plain grey-brown; below whitish; head, neck and breast light ... [details]

Size: medium to large. Plumage: streaked, mottled and barred, dark brown and buff or whitish; breeding dress like ... [details]

Length: 53-59 cm. Plumage: above, head neck and breast streaked brown on buff; belly and rump white; flanks with brown ... [details]

Length: 40-43 cm. Plumage: above, neck chest and flanks buff streaked dark brown; belly and lower back white; bold ... [details]

Size: very small. Plumage: primaries rufous; wing-spots metallic violet; rump banded; tail long and attenuated. Other ... [details]

Length: 22-27 cm. Plumage: tail long and graduated; above mostly grey-brown, lower back with two dark bands ... [details]

Size: small and slim. Plumage: breeding female more colourful than male; wings narrow and pointed; feathers thicker ... [details]

Length: 16-19 cm. Plumage: grey above, sides of neck and below white; dark eye patch; white bar in spread wing; dark ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: extremely bright and variable breeding plumage in males, including ear tufts and ruff. Other ... [details]

Length: male 28-31 cm, female 23-25 cm. Plumage: above dark brown with buffy-white edges to feathers giving scaly ... [details]

Size: medium, chunky plovers. Plumage: extensive spotting on upperparts; wings long and pointed; tail short, square ... [details]

Length: 23-26 cm. Plumage: non-breeding adult greyish brown spotted golden above; conspicuous superciliary stripes ... [details]

Length: 28-31 cm. Plumage: brownish grey mottled white or buff above, rump white; below white mottled grey or buff; ... [details]

Size: large. Plumage: throat black or grey in male, white in female; tail long, stiff and graduated with 16-18 ... [details]

Length: male 51-65 cm; female 45-56 cm. Plumage: male with crown and neck greyish black to black with a green to ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: pied; wings long and pointed; outer primary longest. Other characters: neck longish; long, ... [details]

Length: 43-46 cm. Plumage: white with black crown, wing coverts, scapulars and wing-tips; black may become brownish ... [details]

Size: large. Distinguishing characters: lower mandible much longer than upper, striated and less than 1 mm wide ... [details]

Length: 36-40 cm. Plumage: whole of back and wings black; forehead and trailing edge of secondaries in spread wing ... [details]

Size: small, slim. Plumage; mainly brown; wings long and pointed with inconspicuous white bar at base of primaries; ... [details]

Length: 46-67 cm. Plumage: two morphs; light morph above brown with darkish cap, below white with brownish wash on ... [details]

Length: 65-78 cm (including tail streamers). Plumage: pale morph above dark brown; cap blackish; below yellowish ... [details]

Size: small to large. Plumage: white and various shades of grey or black; most with deeply forked tails. Other ... [details]

Length: 20-28 cm. Plumage: back and wings grey; whole crown black with white forehead (white extends over whole of ... [details]

Length: 30-32 cm <393>, 36-42 cm <391>. Plumage: tail, rump, back and wings dark greyish brown; mantle pale greyish brown; ... [details]

Length: 35-41 cm. Plumage: above pale grey with white collar on hind neck and black crown and crest (non-breeding ... [details]

Length: 46-50 cm. Plumage: above, dark grey tail, rump, wings and back with white leading and trailing edges to ... [details]

Length: 47-56 cm. Plumage: above tail, rump, back and wings grey; white collar on hind neck; head crest and cap ... [details]

Length: 33-40 cm. Plumage: above tail very pale grey rump white, back and wings very pale grey, hindneck collar ... [details]

Length: 40-47 cm. Plumage: above entirely black; large white on forehead does not extend behind eye; below entirely ... [details]

Length: 31-38 cm. Plumage: tail, rump, back and wings pale grey; collar on hindneck and below white; black cap on head; ... [details]

Length: 33-41 cm. Plumage: tail, rump, back and wings pale grey, wingtips darker grey; hind neck white; forehean ... [details]

Length: 30-37 cm. Plumage: darkish grey back and wings, crown black in breeding bird; in non-breeding bird forehead ... [details]

Length: 36-46 cm. Plumage: rump white, other wise very pale grey above, with black crown and crest in breeding ... [details]

Length: 22-24 cm. Plumage: above pale grey; in breeding bird cap black, triangular white forehead patch not ... [details]

Length: 34-37 cm. Plumage: above very pale grey; below white; tail grey with white outer tail feathers; head white ... [details]

Size: medium. Plumage: grey or light brown with black half-collar; tail longish and somewhat graduated with white ... [details]

Length: 30-36 cm. Plumage: above brown with dark brown wings; crown grey; face and below vinous pink with grey ... [details]

Size: medium small to medium large waders; relatively slender. Plumage: above grey or dull brown; below whitish; ... [details]

Length: 30-36 cm. Plumage: above mottled grey; below white with some streaking on sides of neck and chest; tail ... [details]

Length: 23-24 cm. Plumage: above dark greenish brown with buff speckling; below white; white superciliary line; ... [details]

Length: 23-25 cm. Plumage: above brownish grey; below white with some streaking on sides of neck and chest; ... [details]

Length: 25-28 cm. Plumage: above mottled dull greyish brown; below white with light greyish brown streaking on neck ... [details]

Size: small. Plumage: brown or pale grey; wings and tail short; wings with rufous; iridescent spots present in ... [details]

Length: 18-22 cm. Plumage: above brown with two dark bands surrounding lighter band on rump and blue iridescent ... [details]