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 46 species which occur in Germany.
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus (A)
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus (A)
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Little Curlew Numenius minutus (A)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris (A)
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda (A)
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes (A)
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus (A)
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia (A)
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris (A)
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla (A)
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla (A)
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (A)
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii (A)
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (A)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata (A)
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus (A)
- Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis (A)
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor (A)
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
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