Sandpipers
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.
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor (A)
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica (A)
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica (A)
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (A)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Wandering Tattler Tringa incana
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala
- Surfbird Aphriza virgata
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Little Stint Calidris minuta (A)
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
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