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 31 species which have been recorded in Venezuela.
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- South American Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae
- Noble Snipe Gallinago nobilis
- Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata
- Andean Snipe Gallinago jamesoni
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica (A)
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus (A)
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Dunlin Calidris alpina (A)
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax (A)
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor (A)
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