5 Terek Sandpipers @ Seletar - 24Sep2015

The newly exposed mudflats showed a surprising 5 Terek Sandpipers together with some Lesser sandplovers, 3 Common Greenshanks and a lone Whimbrel. (There could have been a sixth Terek as the few were running about quite a bit over the mudflat and I was a long way off).

These birds are not normally resident in Singapore....so what are they doing here? 

Find out about the East Asian Flyway :

http://www.eaaflyway.net/about/the-flyway/

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/userfiles/file/sowb/flyways/8_EastAsia_Australasia_NEW.pdf

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Find out more about the Terek Sandpiper :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terek_sandpiper
birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3026
environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=59300
audubon.org/field-guide/bird/terek-sandpiper
nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/terek-sandpiper
birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=057025

Find out more about the Common Greenshank :
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Tringa_nebularia.htm
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/factsheet/22693220
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_greenshank
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/common-greenshank

Find out more about the Lesser Sandplover (a.k.a. Mongolian Plover) :
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Charadrius_mongolus.htm
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3138
http://www.arkive.org/lesser-sand-plover/charadrius-mongolus/
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22693855/0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_sand_plover
http://www.wetlands.org/Portals/0/publications/Book/lesser%20sand%20plover.pdf
http://birdingfrontiers.com/2013/07/29/mongolian-lesser-and-greater-sand-plovers/

Find out more about the Whimbrel :
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/Numenius_phaeopus.htm
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/factsheet/22693178
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whimbrel
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Whimbrel/id
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/w/whimbrel/
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/whimbrel