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From Sandpipers to Terns: 31 Birds You Might See On The Beach is your essential guide to the diverse bird species that grace our sandy stretches during the warmer months. Whether you’re a seasoned birder or a casual beachgoer, this guide will help you identify everything from the swift-flying Least Tern to the methodically foraging Long ...
The smallest of our hirundines, the Sand Martin can be found nesting in colonies in sandy banks across Britain & Ireland. The Sand Martin is amongst our earliest summer visitors to arrive, often being seen during the first two weeks of March.
Swifts, swallows, house martins and sand martins are all summer visitors to the UK. While the swift spends most of its time soaring high in the sky, the swallow or 'barn swallow' might be seen perching on a wire, or roosting in a reedbed.
Sand Martins are the smallest European hirundines (the collective name for martins and swallows). They have dark brown upper parts and dark under wings, contrasting with pale under parts divided by a distinctive dark chest stripe. They are agile fliers, feeding mainly over water.
The Sanderling’s black legs blur as it runs back and forth on the beach, picking or probing for tiny prey in the wet sand left by receding waves. Sanderlings are medium-sized “peep” sandpipers recognizable by their pale nonbreeding plumage, black legs and bill, and obsessive wave-chasing habits.
Sand martins are sociable birds and will nest together in summer and gather to roost in large numbers in autumn; eventually they migrate to Africa to spend the winter. How to identify Our smallest swallow, the sand martin is brown above and white below, with a brown band across its breast and a short, forked tail.
Sanderling. The caricature of a Sanderling is a small, white mouse-like wader chasing the tideline back and forth on a sandy beach. These birds are winter visitors to Britain & Ireland, distributed widely around the coast and preferring long sandy beaches and sandbars.
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