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.
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica (A)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda (A)
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria (A)
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Red Knot Calidris canutus (A)
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (A)
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A)
- Dunlin Calidris alpina (A)
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of The Turks And Caicos Islands
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