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 12 species which occur in Swaziland.
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus (A)
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus (A)
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres (A)
- Sanderling Calidris alba (A)
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Swaziland
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