The ruff (Calidrispugnax) is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper
The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English sand-yrðling, "sand-ploughman". The genus name is from Ancient
(Gallinago gallinago) Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) Preening male ruff (Calidrispugnax) A distal right tarsometatarsus of a bird roughly similar to a pectoral