During the early 1980s, when we used to observe the birds at the estuaries, seacoast and other wetlands of North Kerala, we had always been perplexed at the identity of several species of Shorebirds encountered. The bird-books available at the time, we found to our consternation, were totally inadequate to deal with this complex group of waders. Later, the book Shorebirds: an Identification Guide to the Waders of the World (Hayman, et al. 1986) appeared on the ...
