When it comes to building nests, birds use a wide variety of tactics and materials. Some birds, like the puffin, burrow into ...

To the untrained eye, the slender-billed curlew could be easily confused with the more abundant Eurasian curlew. A brown and beige wading bird with a speckly belly, its most obvious defining ...

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.

Alex Ward Eurasian curlews are large, mottled brown birds with long legs and distinctive ... Eurasian curlews are Europe's largest wading bird. Jo Wright Since 2015, the birds have been listed ...

Otherwise known as Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, a long-necked wading bird in the stork family ... and parts of East Africa. With dark brown plumage, broad wings, and sharp yellow eyes, they cut a ...

What were you trying to capture or express? I was there for a story about wading birds and this guy swooped in and made my morning. What type of lens/equipment did you use to get this image?

LIFE on Machair and Breeding Waders EIP teamed up to design and put up fencing of 1.6km to protect endangered wading birds. The area of the exclusion zone is approximately 8-9 hectares.