shorebirds Photo Gallery
Shorebirds photographed on Texas beaches, mudflats, and shorelines, many passing through on long migrations. Click any species below to open its page with more photos, the locations they were taken, and notes on habitat, season, and identification.
American Avocet
American Golden-Plover
American Oystercatcher
Baird's Sandpiper
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Red Knot
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Willet
Wilson's Phalarope
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe
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