Sandpipers and Allies
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Scolopacidae
The Scolopacidae are a large diverse family of small to medium sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers and phalaropes. The majority of species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Variation in length of legs and bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food. There are 89 species worldwide and 43 species which occur in India.
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
- Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria
- Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola
- Pintail Snipe Gallinago stenura
- Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus (A)
- Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Also Limosa limosa melanuroides (coastal and possibly a full species according to Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis (Hypothetical according to Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Grey-tailed Tattler Heterosceles brevipes (A)
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
- Red Knot Calidris canutus (A)
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata (A)
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus (A)
- Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis (A)
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius (A)
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