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The Stilts are found in brackish or saline wetlands in warm OR hot climates. They have extremely long legs, hence the group name, and long thin bills. Stilts typically feed on aquatic insects and other small creatures and nest on the ground surface in loose colonies. The Sandpipers are a large family of waders or shorebirds. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food. Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds. There are about 40 species in the subfamily, most of them called Plover OR Dotterel. Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipe do. They feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups.
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American Avocet
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American Woodcock
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Baird's Sandpiper
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Bar-tailed Godwit
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Black Turnstone
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Black-necked Stilt
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Black-tailed Godwit
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Black-winged Stilt
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Bristle-thighed Curlew
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Broad-billed Sandpiper
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper
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Collared Plover
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Collared Pratincole
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Common Greenshank
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Common Redshank
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Common Sandpiper
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Common Snipe
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Crab Plover
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Curlew Sandpiper
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Double-striped Thick-knee
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Eskimo Curlew
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Eurasian Curlew
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Eurasian Dotterel
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Eurasian Oystercatcher
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Golden Plover
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Gray-tailed Tattler
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Great Thick-knee
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Greater Sand Plover
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Greater Yellowlegs
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Green Sandpiper
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Grey Plover
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Hudsonian Godwit
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Indian Thick-knee
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Kentish Plover
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Killdeer
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Least Sandpiper
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Lesser Sand Plover
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Lesser Yellowlegs
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Little Curlew
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Little Ringed Plover
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Little Stint
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Long-billed Curlew
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Long-billed Dowitcher
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Marbled Godwit
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Marsh Sandpiper
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Mountain Plover
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Painted Snipe
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Pied Avocet
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Piping Plover
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Purple Sandpiper
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Red-necked Phalarope
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Ringed Plover
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Rock Sandpiper
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Ruddy Turnstone
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Ruff
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Sanderling
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Semipalmated Plover
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Semipalmated Sandpiper
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Short-billed Dowitcher
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Slender-billed Curlew
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Small Pratincole
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Snowy Plover
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Solitary Sandpiper
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Spotted Redshank
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Spotted Sandpiper
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Stilt Sandpiper
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Surfbird
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Terek Sandpiper
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Upland Sandpiper
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Wandering Tattler
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Western Sandpiper
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Whimbrel
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White-rumped Sandpiper
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Willet
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Wilson's Phalarope
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Wilson's Plover
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Wilson's Snipe
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Wood Sandpiper
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Wood Snipe
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