Various Water Birds Family Photo Gallery - Canberra Birds

Various Water Birds

Silver Gull

Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Noel Luff

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Common, breeding resident.

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Whiskered Tern

Chlidonias hybrida

Image Credit: David Cook

Image Credit: Dimitris Bertzeletos

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Dimitris Bertzeletos

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Rare, non-breeding visitor.

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Caspian Tern

Hydroprogne caspia

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: John Gordon

Image Credit: John Gordon

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Common Gull-billed Tern

Gelochelidon nilotica

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Curlew Sandpiper

Calidris ferruginea

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Lindsay Hansch

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Non-breeding vagrant. Declared Endangered in NSW.

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Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Calidris acuminata

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: John Gordon

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: David Cook

Uncommon, non-breeding summer migrant.

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Pectoral Sandpiper

Calidris melanotos

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Long-toed Stint

Calidris subminuta

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Red-necked Stint

Calidris ruficollis

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Lindsay Hansch

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: David Cook

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Ruddy Turnstone

Arenaria interpres

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Wood Sandpiper

Tringa glareola

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Marsh Sandpiper

Tringa stagnatilis

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Lindsay Hansch

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Common Greenshank

Tringa nebularia

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Rare, non-breeding summer migrant.

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Eastern Curlew

Numenius madagascariensis

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: John Gordon

Image Credit: John Gordon

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: John Gordon

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Bar-tailed Godwit

Limosa lapponica

Image Credit: David Cook

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Image Credit: David Cook

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Latham’s Snipe

Gallinago hardwickii

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Ian Fraser

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Common, non-breeding summer migrant.

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Australian Painted-snipe

Rostratula australis

Image Credit: Tobias Hayashi

Rare, non-breeding visitor. Declared Endangered in NSW and under the EPBC Act.

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Masked Lapwing

Vanellus miles

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Helen Fallow

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Image Credit: Rhonda Hansch

Image Credit: David Cook

Common, breeding resident.

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Banded Lapwing

Vanellus tricolor

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Rhonda Hansch

Image Credit: Julian Robinson

Rare, breeding visitor.

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Red-kneed Dotterel

Erythrogonys cinctus

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Rhonda Hansch

Image Credit: Roger Curnow

Image Credit: David Cook

Image Credit: Tobias Hayashi

Uncommon, breeding summer migrant.

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Black-fronted Dotterel

Elseyornis melanops

Image Credit: David Cook

Image Credit: Frank Antram

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Lindsay Hansch

Image Credit: David Cook

Uncommon, breeding resident.

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Double-banded Plover

Charadrius bicinctus

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Red-capped Plover

Charadrius ruficapillus

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Image Credit: Lindsay Hansch

Image Credit: Rhonda Hansch

Image Credit: Stuart Harris

Image Credit: Harvey Perkins

Rare, non-breeding visitor.

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Pacific Golden Plover

Pluvialis fulva

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Red-necked Avocet

Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Non-breeding vagrant.

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Pied Stilt

Himantopus leucocephalus

Image Credit: Dimitris Bertzeletos

Image Credit: Lindsay Hansch

Image Credit: Martin Butterfield

Image Credit: Noel Luff

Image Credit: David Cook

Uncommon, non-breeding visitor.

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Bush Stone-curlew

Burhinus grallarius

Image Credit: David Cook

Image Credit: Geoffrey Dabb

Image Credit: Graham Stephinson

Image Credit: Peter Fullagar

Image Credit: David Cook

Previously extinct but reintroduced at Mulligans Flat NR as a free-flying population. Rare, breeding resident. Declared Endangered in NSW.

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