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 17 species which occur in New Caledonia.
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Little Curlew Numenius minutus (A)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis (A)
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis (A)
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Gray-tailed Tattler Heterosceles brevipes
- Wandering Tattler Heterosceles incanus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris (A)
- Red Knot Calidris canutus (A)
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of New Caledonia
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