Sandpipers, Curlews, Stints, Godwits, Snipes, and Phalaropes
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. Most species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of legs and bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food. There are 40 New Jersey species.
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus (A)
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (A)
- Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus (A)
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (A)
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica (A)
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- 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
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata (A)
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (A)
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
- Ruff Philomachus pugnax
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola (A)
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of New Jersey