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 22 species which occur in the Solomon Islands.
- Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Little Curlew Numenius minutus
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (A)
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Gray-tailed Tattler Heterosceles brevipes
- Wandering Tattler Heterosceles incanus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus (A)
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax (A)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of The Solomon Islands
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