List of Birds of Greenland - 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.

• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola (A)
• Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (A)
• Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata (A)
• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus (A)
• Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (A)
• Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (A)
• Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (A)
• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda (A)
• Common Redshank Tringa totanus (A)
• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia (A)
• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca (A)
• Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes (A)
• Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria (A)
• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (A)
• Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia (A)
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Red Knot Calidris canutus
• Sanderling Calidris alba
• Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla (A)
• Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii (A)
• Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla (A)
• White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (A)
• Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A)
• Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (A)
• Dunlin Calidris alpina
• Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis (A)
• Ruff Philomachus pugnax (A)
• Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
• Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius