English: Ruddy Turnstone, Turnstone
Russian: Камнешарка
Mongolian: Алаг хайргач, Өндгөн алаг
German: Steinwalzer
French: Tournepierre a collier
Japanese: キョウジョシギ (Kyojo-shigi)

Body length: 21-24 cm
Wing span: 43-49 cm

Breeds on mainly stony or rocky coasts and in treeless archipelagos; wary, keeping watch from top of shore or boulder. Winters in a variety of coasted habitats. Food highly varied; uses bill to turn over stones or seaweed to obtain prey beneath. Nests on ground.

Identification: Medium-sized, stocky wader with distinctive wedge-shaped, pointed bill, orange legs and pied wing pattern. Adult summer: ♂ has extensive bright orange-brown on scapulars and wing-coverts, and clear black-and-white head pattern; ♀ (and 1 summer) has less clear orange (often lacking on wing-coverts) and less smart head pattern. Adult winter: Distinctive pale-centred breast-side patches; rather dark grey-brown above, often with some dull orange on scapulars; wing-coverts and tertials plain grey-brown or diffusely edged paler; legs bright orange.

• Juvenile: Like adult winter, but with neat ginger-brown or whitish fringes giving distinct scaly pattern above.