Sandpipers (NA)
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Scolopacidae
The Scolopacidae are a large family of shorebirds.
The majority of species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
Many of the smaller species found in coastal habitats, particularly but not exclusively the calidrids, are often named as "Sandpipers", but this term does not have a strict meaning, since the Upland Sandpiper is a grassland species.
Genus: Tringa
- Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
- Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
- Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
- Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)
- Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
- Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
- Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
- Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Genus: Catoptrophorus
Genus: Heteroscelus
Genus: Actitis
Genus: Xenus
Genus: Bartramia
Genus: Numenius
- Little Curlew (Numenius minutus)
- Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis)
- Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)
- Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)
- Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
- Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata)
- Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
Genus: Limosa
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
- Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)
- Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
- Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
Genus: Arenaria
Genus: Aphriza
Genus: Calidris
- Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
- Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
- Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
- Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis)
- Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
- Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii)
- Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
- Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
- White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
- Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
- Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
- Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis)
- Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
- Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
- Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
Genus: Eurynorhynchus
Genus: Limicola
Genus: Tryngites
Genus: Philomachus
- Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
- Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
- Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
- Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
Genus: Gallinago
Genus: Scolopax
Genus: Phalaropus
- Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
- Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
- Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria)
Genus: Glareola
