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
- South American Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae
- Puna Snipe Gallinago andina
- Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata
- Andean Snipe Gallinago jamesoni
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri (A)
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
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