Family: Burhinidae

Beach Thick-knee  Burhinus giganteus - local resident
Eurasian Thick-knee  Burhinus oedicnemus - widespread resident
Great Thick-knee  Burhinus recurvirostris - widespread resident

Family: Charadriidae

Kentish Plover  Charadrius alexandrinus - widespread winter visitor & resident
Caspian Plover  Charadrius asiaticus - vagrant
Little Ringed Plover  Charadrius dubius - widespread winter visitor & resident
Common Ringed Plover  Charadrius hiaticula - vagrant
Greater Sand Plover  Charadrius leschenaultii - widespread winter visitor
Mongolian Plover  Charadrius mongolus - widespread winter visitor/s
Long-billed Plover  Charadrius placidus - sparse winter visitor
Oriental Plover  Charadrius veredus - vagrant
Black-fronted Dotterel  Elseyornis melanops - vagrant?
Eurasian Oystercatcher  Haematopus ostralegus - widespread winter visitor
Black-winged Stilt  Himantopus himantopus - widespread common resident
Ibisbill  Ibidorhyncha struthersii - local resident>
Eurasian Golden-Plover  Pluvialis apricaria - vagrant
Pacific Golden-Plover  Pluvialis fulva - widespread winter visitor
Grey Plover  Pluvialis squatarola - widespread winter visitor
Pied Avocet  Recurvirostra avosetta - widespread winter visitor & local resident
Grey-headed Lapwing  Vanellus cinereus - widespread winter visitor
River Lapwing  Vanellus duvaucelii - widespread resident
Sociable Lapwing  Vanellus gregarius - sparse winter visitor
Red-wattled Lapwing  Vanellus indicus - widespread common resident
White-tailed Lapwing  Vanellus leucurus - widespread winter visitor
Yellow-wattled Lapwing  Vanellus malabaricus - widespread resident
Northern Lapwing  Vanellus vanellus - widespread winter visitor
 

Family: Glareolidae

Indian Courser  Cursorius coromandelicus - widespread resident
Cream-colored Courser  Cursorius cursor - sparse winter visitor & local resident
Crab Plover  Dromas ardeola - sparse winter visitor
Small Pratincole  Glareola lactea - widespread resident
Oriental Pratincole  Glareola maldivarum - widespread resident
Collared Pratincole  Glareola pratincola - sparse winter visitor
Jerdon's Courser  Rhinoptilus bitorquatus - local resident
 

Family: Jacanidae

Pheasant-tailed Jacana  Hydrophasianus chirurgus - widespread resident
Bronze-winged Jacana  Metopidius indicus - widespread resident
 

Family: Laridae

Black Noddy  Anous minutus - vagrant?
Brown Noddy  Anous stolidus - local resident
Brown Skua  Catharacta lonnbergi - vagrant
South Polar Skua  Catharacta maccormicki - vagrant
Whiskered Tern  Chlidonias hybridus - widespread winter visitor & resident
White-winged Tern  Chlidonias leucopterus - sparse winter visitor
Black Tern  Chlidonias niger - vagrant
Common White-Tern  Gygis alba - local resident
Brown-headed Gull  Larus brunnicephalus - widespread winter visitor & resident?
Yellow-legged Gull  Larus cachinnans - sparse winter visitor
Mew Gull  Larus canus - vagrant
Slender-billed Gull  Larus genei - widespread winter visitor
Sooty Gull  Larus hemprichii - vagrant
Great Black-headed Gull  Larus ichthyaetus - widespread winter visitor
Great Black-backed Gull  Larus marinus - vagrant?
Little Gull  Larus minutus - vagrant
Common Black-headed Gull  Larus ridibundus - widespread winter visitor
Indian Skimmer  Rynchops albicollis - widespread resident
Parasitic Jaeger  Stercorarius parasiticus - sparse migrant
Pomarine Jaeger  Stercorarius pomarinus - sparse migrant
Black-bellied Tern  Sterna acuticauda - widespread resident
Little Tern  Sterna albifrons - widespread resident
Bridled Tern  Sterna anaethetus s
River Tern  Sterna aurantia - widespread common resident
Lesser Crested-Tern  Sterna bengalensis - widespread resident
Great Crested-Tern  Sterna bergii - widespread resident
Caspian Tern  Sterna caspia - widespread winter visitor
Roseate Tern  Sterna dougallii - local resident
Sooty Tern  Sterna fuscata s
Common Tern  Sterna hirundo - widespread winter visitor & resident?
Gull-billed Tern  Sterna nilotica - widespread winter visitor & local resident
Arctic Tern  Sterna paradisaea - vagrant
White-cheeked Tern  Sterna repressa s
Sandwich Tern  Sterna sandvicensis - sparse winter visitor
Saunders's Tern  Sterna saundersi s?
Black-naped Tern  Sterna sumatrana - local resident
 

Family: Rostratulidae

Greater Painted-snipe  Rostratula benghalensis - widespread resident
 

Family: Scolopacidae

Ruddy Turnstone  Arenaria interpres - widespread winter visitor
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper  Calidris acuminata - vagrant
Sanderling  Calidris alba - widespread winter visitor
Dunlin  Calidris alpina - sparse winter visitor
Red Knot  Calidris canutus - vagrant
Curlew Sandpiper  Calidris ferruginea - widespread winter visitor
Little Stint  Calidris minuta - widespread winter visitor
Rufous-necked Stint  Calidris ruficollis - sparse winter visitor
Long-toed Stint  Calidris subminuta - sparse winter visitor
Temminck's Stint  Calidris temminckii - widespread winter visitor
Great Knot  Calidris tenuirostris - sparse winter visitor
Spoonbill Sandpiper  Eurynorhynchus pygmeus - sparse winter visitor
Common Snipe  Gallinago gallinago - widespread winter visitor & local resident
Great Snipe  Gallinago media - vagrant
Swinhoe's Snipe  Gallinago megala - sparse winter visitor
Wood Snipe  Gallinago nemoricola - local resident
Solitary Snipe  Gallinago solitaria - local resident
Pintail Snipe  Gallinago stenura - widespread winter visitor
Broad-billed Sandpiper  Limicola falcinellus - sparse winter visitor
Asian Dowitcher  Limnodromus semipalmatus - sparse winter visitor
Bar-tailed Godwit  Limosa lapponica - widespread winter visitor
Black-tailed Godwit  Limosa limosa - widespread winter visitor
Jack Snipe  Lymnocryptes minimus - sparse winter visitor
Eurasian Curlew  Numenius arquata - widespread winter visitor
Whimbrel  Numenius phaeopus - widespread winter visitor
Red Phalarope  Phalaropus fulicaria - vagrant
Red-necked Phalarope  Phalaropus lobatus - widespread winter visitor
Ruff  Philomachus pugnax - sparse winter visitor
Eurasian Woodcock  Scolopax rusticola - widespread winter visitor & resident
Terek Sandpiper  Tringa cinerea - widespread winter visitor
Spotted Redshank  Tringa erythropus - widespread winter visitor
Wood Sandpiper  Tringa glareola - widespread winter visitor
Nordmann's Greenshank  Tringa guttifer - vagrant
Common Sandpiper  Tringa hypoleucos - widespread winter visitor & resident?
Common Greenshank  Tringa nebularia - widespread winter visitor
Green Sandpiper  Tringa ochropus - widespread winter visitor
Marsh Sandpiper  Tringa stagnatilis - widespread winter visitor
Common Redshank  Tringa totanus - widespread winter visitor & resident