Sandpipers, Curlews, Stints, Godwits, Snipes, and Phalaropes
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. Different lengths of legs and bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
- Wilson's Snipe, Gallinago delicata
- Short-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus
- Long-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus (A)
- Hudsonian Godwit, Limosa haemastica (A)
- Marbled Godwit, Limosa fedoa (A)
- Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis (A) (This species is presumed to be extinct)
- Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus (A)
- Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus (A)
- Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda (A)
- Common Greenshank, Tringa nebularia (A)
- Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs, Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper, Tringa solitaria
- Willet, Tringa semipalmata
- Spotted Sandpiper, Tringa macularia
- Ruddy Turnstone, Arenaria interpres
- Red Knot, Calidris canutus (A)
- Sanderling, Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper, Calidris mauri
- Least Sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis (A)
- Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii (A)
- Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos
- Curlew Sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea (A)
- Dunlin, Calidris alpina (A)
- Stilt Sandpiper, Calidris himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis (A)
- Ruff, Philomachus pugnax (A)
- Wilson's Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor (A)
- Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus (A)
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