Wader Collection

Red-necked phalarope and grey phalarope
Red-necked phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus (Ph. hyperboreus) 1, female 2, egg 3, and red or grey phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius (Ph. platyrhynchus) 4, female 5, winter plumage 6, egg 7

Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis). Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Water Buffalo - surrounded by Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis), feeding around the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Bohol, Philippines. February

Nest of Black-tailed Godwit - one egg is hatching (Limosa limosa). marsh near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Black-tailed Godwit - nervous about intruders on his breeding territory on a typical marsh near river Bolshoi Ugan (Limosa limosa)

RINGED PLOVER - typical nest in a pebble beach (Charadrius hiaticula ). Taimyr, Russian Arctic

Pacific Golden PLOVER - nest with eggs (Pluvialis fulva). Tundra, Taimyr Peninsula, Russian Arctic

Great Egret feeds on fish in an oxbow lake in Kinabatangan river floodplain (Egretta alba). Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes). Korea

Chinese egret - nesting colony on cliff top (Egretta eulophotes)

Common Snipe
Illlustration of a Common Snipe by Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)

Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, black-necked stork
Watercolour 302 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New-Holland Jabiru

Ardea sp. Heron
Ff. 112. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Ardea cocoi and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, willet
Plate 274 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Numenius phaeopus, whimbrel
Plate 237 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Numenius borealis, Eskimo curlew
Plate 208 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Limosa haemastica, Hudsonian godwit
Plate 258 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Calidris alba, sanderling
Plate 230 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Charadrius vociferus, killdeer
Plate 225 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Calidris ferruginea, curlew sandpiper
Plate 263 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Charadrius wilsonia, Wilsons plover
Plate 209 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Ardeola grayli, indian pond heron
Indian pond heron egg specimens

Aphriza virgata, surfbird
Plate 428 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Calidris pusilla, semipalmated sandpiper
Plate 405 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Calidris canutus, red knot
Plate 315 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Tringa solitaria, solitary sandpiper
Plate 289 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Calidris alpina, dunlin
Plate 290 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Dutch card - Ladies hat with whole mounted bird
Dutch card - A 1940s Lady, wearing a hat with whole mounted wader attached across the side!! The caption beneath this bizarre image is translated as " Congratulated Warmly" (or)

Oystercatchers (Haematopus bachmani). Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

CURLEW / CIG. CARD / 1915
Curlew - latin name: Numenius arquata

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