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.
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia (A)
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (A)
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (Ex)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (A)
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica (A)
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica (A)
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis (A)
- Little Stint Calidris minuta (A)
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii (A)
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata (A)
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (A)
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax (A)
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (A)
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor (A)
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus (A)
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius (A)
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