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 31 species which occur in Chile.
- South American Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae
- Puna Snipe Gallinago andina
- Fuegian Snipe Gallinago stricklandii
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus (A)
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa (A)
- Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (A)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis (A)
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda (A)
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria (A)
- Wandering Tattler Tringa incana (A)
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Surfbird Aphriza virgata
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla (A)
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri (A)
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla (A)
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Dunlin Calidris alpina (A)
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus (A)
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
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