THE WATERBIRD & WADERS GALLERY

Little Stint. Chanonry point, Moray firth, Scotland (Contains 3 photos)	Turnstone, Chanonry point, Moray firth, Scotland (Contains 4 photos)
OYSTERCATCHER GALLERY (Contains 1 photo)	GREAT CRESTED GREBES (Contains 11 photos)
THE LAPWING (Contains 7 photos)	WHOOPER SWANS (Contains 9 photos) Taken at Martin Mere these birds will have migrated hundreds of miles to their wintering sites in southern Europe. Whoopers breed in subarctic Eurasia with a minimum of 1600 birds overwintering at Martin mere.
DIPPERS (Contains 22 photos)	THE COMMON EIDER DUCK (Contains 4 photos) These photos show the Male Common Eider."Eiderdown" as used in pillows and quilts is plucked from the females breast to line the nest and used to be harvested after the ducklings had left the nest.
SHELDUCKS (Contains 4 photos)	PINTAILS (Contains 3 photos)
TEAL (Small dabbling duck) (Contains 2 photos) Another migrant the resident population in the UK is about 3000 pairs in the summer expanding to over 100,000 pairs in the winter.	THE MALLARD DUCK (Contains 1 photo)
THE RUFF (Wading Bird) (Contains 4 photos) Photographs in the Winter plumage. The breeding plumage is entirely diffferent, breeding in Northern Eurasia.	THE COOT (Contains 1 photo)
HERONS (Collection) (Contains 0 photos) Contains 1.BITTERNS 2.GREY HERONS	COOT CHICKS, Images of newly born coots (Contains 8 photos)
Mute Swan Gallery (Contains 1 photo)	Graylag Geese (Contains 0 photos)