There have been some who have claimed to have seen the "small brown wading bird" a decade after its last confirmed sighting in Morocco. However, these reports were found to not be credible.

Plovers are medium-sized wading birds found worldwide ... most of which have white, black, grey, and brown plumage variations ...

Once considered endangered, limpkins are a version of a rail, roughly the size of a heron, and are mostly brown and black ... the limpkin is a wading bird with no close relatives.