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. In Massachusetts, 43 species have been recorded.
- Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs, Tringa flavipes
- Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus (R)
- Solitary Sandpiper, Tringa solitaria
- Willet, Tringa semipalmata (n)
- Wandering Tattler, Heteroscelus incanus (R)
- Spotted Sandpiper, Actitis macularia (n)
- Terek Sandpiper, Xenus cinereus (R)
- Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda (n)
- Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis (E?)
- Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus
- Eurasian Curlew, Numenius arquata (R)
- Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus (R)
- Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa (R)
- Hudsonian Godwit, Limosa haemastica
- Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica (R)
- Marbled Godwit, Limosa fedoa
- Ruddy Turnstone, Arenaria interpres
- Red Knot, Calidris canutus
- Sanderling, Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper, Calidris mauri
- Red-necked Stint, Calidris ruficollis (R)
- Little Stint, Calidris minuta (R)
- Least Sandpiper, Calidris minutilla (xn)
- White-rumped Sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata (R)
- Purple Sandpiper, Calidris maritima
- Dunlin, Calidris alpina
- Curlew Sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea (non-alternate plumage only)
- Stilt Sandpiper, Calidris himantopus
- Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus (R)
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis
- Ruff, Philomachus pugnax
- Short-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus
- Long-billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Wilson's Snipe, Gallinago delicata (n)
- American Woodcock, Scolopax minor (n)
- Wilson's Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor (n)
- Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus
- Red Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius
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