List of Birds of Cape Verde - Sandpipers and Allies

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 30 species which occur in Cape Verde.

• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
• Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus (A)
• Great Snipe Gallinago media (A)
• Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (A)
• Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
• Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
• Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (A)
• Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus (A)
• Common Redshank Tringa totanus
• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca (A)
• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes (A)
• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
• Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Red Knot Calidris canutus (A)
• Sanderling Calidris alba
• Little Stint Calidris minuta
• Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii (A)
• Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla (A)
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A)
• Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
• Dunlin Calidris alpina
• Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
• Ruff Philomachus pugnax
• Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus (A)
• Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius