Waders

More than 860 species in Europe alone — birds are found nearly everywhere on this planet, delighting us in every season. Birds are our joy on this earth, and among them are the waders. Watching them on our coasts brightens the day.

"— The fluted calls of curlews, the pirouettes of lapwings, a snipe rocketing up out of the marsh.. On the glistening sheet of mud left by the retreating sea, a busy little population hunting tiny prey, clouds of birds rising in the distance like rippling smoke.. The fleeting appearance of a redshank at the edge of a lonely pond.. This is how one falls under the spell of the waders, those elegant travellers whose seasonal comings and goings from one end of the continents to the other never cease to astonish us. They also bind us to marshes, lagoons, shorelines — those wet, life-giving worlds that our own species is so intent on mistreating."

Paul Géroudet - Limicoles, gangas et pigeons d’Europe.

Common Snipe [Le Teich] turnstones taking flight [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Egret [Le Teich] Plover [Brittany, France] Common Snipe [Le Teich] flock of sandpipers - [Anse du Stole - Lomener, Brittany France] Common Ringed Plover [Le Teich, France] Kentish plover [Étang de Trunvel - Brittany, France]] Common Snipe [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Common Sandpiper - [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Turnstone - [Kerroch, France] Sanderling [Fort Bloqué - Brittany, France] Bar-tailed Godwit [Île de Sein - Brittany, France] Common Redshank [Le Teich, France] Eurasian Oystercatchers [Andenes, Norway] Kentish Plovers [Plage de Trunvel - Brittany, France] Common Greenshank [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Avocet [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Northern Lapwing [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Black-winged Stilt [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Eurasian Oystercatcher [Fornebu, Oslo] Common Ringed Plover [le Teich - Arcachon, France] Plover [Sao Jacinto - Aveiro, Portugal] Sandpiper [Sao Jacinto - Aveiro, Portugal] Turnstone [Peniche, Portugal] Plover [Faro, Portugal] Common Redshank [Le Teich, Arcachon, France] Common Sandpiper [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Stilt in the marsh [Marais de Séné - Brittany, France] Eurasian Oystercatcher [Fornebu, Oslo] Red-wattled Lapwing [Bandar Jissah, Oman] Plover [Yiti, Oman] Greenshank [Qurum beach, Oman] Golden Plover (West Fjords, Iceland] Whimbrel [Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland] Plover [Hirtshals, Denmark] Little Ringed Plover [Hirtshals, Denmark] Common Redshank [Muscat, Oman] Plover [Awqad Al Janubiyyah, Oman] Common Sandpiper [Le Courégant - Brittany, France] Golden Plover [Akranes, Iceland] Bar-tailed Godwit [Suscino - Brittany, France] Godwits taking flight [Suscino - Brittany, France] Common Sandpiper [Suscino - Brittany, France] Common Snipe [Akranes - Iceland] Plover [Faro, Portugal] Curlew [Faro, Portugal] Common Redshank [Faro, Portugal]