Sandpipers and Allies
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Scolopacidae
A large, diverse family of wading birds. Different lengths of legs and bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food. There are about 89 species worldwide, 55 in Britain.
| Common name | Binomial | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | A rare vagrant |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | A winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | A winter visitor & passage migrant |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | A rare vagrant |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | A rare vagrant |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | A rare vagrant |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | A winter visitor & passage migrant |
| Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | A winter visitor & passage migrant, occasional breeder |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | A rare vagrant |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | A rare vagrant |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | A rare vagrant |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | A rare vagrant |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | A winter visitor & passage migrant |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | A rare vagrant |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | A winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | A rare vagrant |
| Purple Sandpiper | Calidris maritima | A winter visitor & passage migrant, occasional breeder |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | A winter visitor and passage migrant, scarce brreder |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Limicola falcinellus | A rare vagrant |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Tryngites subruficollis | A passage migrant |
| Ruff | Philomachus pugnax | A passage migrant and scarce breeding resident |
| Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | A winter visitor & passage migrant |
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | A resident breeding species and summer visitor |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | A rare vagrant |
| Great Snipe | Gallinago media | A rare vagrant |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | A rare vagrant |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | A rare vagrant |
| Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | A resident breeding species |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | A winter visitor, passage migrant and scarce summer breeding species |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | A rare vagrant |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | A winter visitor & passage migrant |
| Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | A rare vagrant |
| Eskimo Curlew | Numenius borealis | B (extinct) |
| Hudsonian Whimbrel | Numenius hudsonicus | A rare vagrant |
| Eurasian Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | A breeding summer visitor |
| Slender-billed Curlew | Numenius tenuirostris | A rare vagrant |
| Curlew | Numenius arquata | A resident breeding species |
| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | A rare vagrant |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | A rare vagrant |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | A resident breeding species and passage migrant |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | A rare vagrant |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | A winter visitor & passage migrant, occasional breeder |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | A rare vagrant |
| Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | A rare vagrant |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | A winter visitor and passage migrant |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | A rare vagrant |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | A resident breeding species and passage migrant |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | A rare vagrant |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | A rare vagrant |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | A passage migrant & rare localised breeder in far North |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | A resident breeding species |
| Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | A resident breeding species |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | A rare vagrant |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | A winter visitor: scarce & localised summer breeding in far North |
| Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicaria | A scarce winter visitor |
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Great Britain
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