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VAGRANTS
Common Name Scientific Name Family/Scientific Name Description
Waders
Painted Snipe Rostratula Waders/Scolopacidae Snipe-like wader from Africa
benghalensis
Crab Plover Dromas ardeola Plovers/Charadriidae Heavy-billed, black and white
wader, in Middle East
Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius Plovers/Charadriidae Small wader from Africa
Black-headed Lapwing Vanellus tectus Plovers/Charadriidae Striking plover from Africa
Red-wattled Lapwing Vanellus indicus Plovers/Charadriidae Eye-catching plover from Asia

Chestnut-banded Plover Charadrius pallidus Plovers/Charadriidae Small sand plover from
southern Africa
Three-banded Plover Charadrius tricollaris Plovers/Charadriidae Small plover from Africa

Kittlitz's Plover Charadrius pecuarius Plovers/Charadriidae Small, compact plover, vagrant
in Middle East, from Africa
Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus Waders/Scolopacidae Long-billed wader from North
America
Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica Waders/Scolopacidae Large, long-billed wader from
North America
Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis Waders/Scolopacidae Medium-sized wader (possibly
extinct) from North America
Little Curlew Numenius minutus Waders/Scolopacidae Whimbrel-like wader from Asia

Grey-tailed Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes Waders/Scolopacidae Medium to small grey wader
from SE Asia
Willet Catoptrophorus Waders/Scolopacidae Godwit-like wader from
semipalmatus North America
Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala Waders/Scolopacidae Dark snipe from Asia

Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura Waders/Scolopacidae Snipe-like bird from Asia

Skuas, Gulls, and Terns
South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki Skuas/Stercoraridae Large skua from southern oceans
Brown-headed Gull Larus brunnicephalus Gulls/Laridae Small gull, vagrant in Middle
East, from Asia
Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens Gulls/Laridae Large gull, vagrant in North
Africa, from North America
Sooty Gull Larus hemprichii Gulls/Laridae Large dusky gull, in Red Sea
Grey-headed Gull Larus cirrocephalus Gulls/Laridae Vagrant in North Africa, from
southern Africa
White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa Gulls/Laridae Black-capped dark tern, in
Middle East
Aleutian Tern Sterna aleutica Terns/Sternidae Grey tern from Arctic Pacific

American Little Tern Sterna antillarum Terns/Sternidae Little Tern from North America
Crested Tern Sterna bergii Terns/Sternidae Large tern from Indian Ocean

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