Sandpipers, Curlews, Stints, Godwits, Snipes, and Phalaropes
Order: Charadriiformes. Family: Scolopacidae
The Scolopacidae are a large and 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. Different lengths of legs and bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food. Fourteen species have been recorded in Tasmania, five as vagrants only.
- Latham's Snipe, Gallinago hardwickii
- Bar-tailed Godwit, Limosa lapponica
- Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus
- Far Eastern Curlew, Numenius madagascariensis
- Common Redshank, Tringa totanus
- Grey-tailed Tattler, Heteroscelus brevipes
- Ruddy Turnstone, Arenaria interpres
- Red-necked Stint, Calidris ruficollis
- Red Knot, Calidris canutus
- Curlew Sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea
- Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii (V)
- Western Sandpiper, Calidris mauri (V)
- Ruff, Philomachus pugnax (V)
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis (V)
- Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus (V)
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Tasmania