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 27 species which occur in Nepal.
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
- Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria
- Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola
- Pintail Snipe Gallinago stenura
- Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres (A)
- Sanderling Calidris alba (A)
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (A)
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus (A)
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