Bird families · Charadriiformes
Sandpipers, Snipes
Scolopacidae · 91 species
Sandpipers, Snipes (Scolopacidae) is a family of 91 bird species in the order Charadriiformes. They live mostly in wetland, grassland, forest habitats. The smallest is the Little Stint and the largest the Eurasian Curlew.
- African Snipe Gallinago nigripennis
- Amami Woodcock Scolopax mira
- American Woodcock Scolopax minor
- Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis
- Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis
- Bukidnon Woodcock Scolopax bukidnonensis
- Chatham Islands Snipe Coenocorypha pusilla
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
- Fuegian Snipe Gallinago stricklandii
- Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata
- Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
- Great Snipe Gallinago media
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
- Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica
- Imperial Snipe Gallinago imperialis
- Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus
- Jameson's Snipe Gallinago jamesoni
- Javan Woodcock Scolopax saturata
- Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Little Curlew Numenius minutus
- Little Stint Calidris minuta
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Madagascar Snipe Gallinago macrodactyla
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Moluccan Woodcock Scolopax rochussenii
- New Guinea Woodcock Scolopax rosenbergii
- Noble Snipe Gallinago nobilis
- Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer
- Pantanal Snipe Gallinago paraguaiae
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura
- Puna Snipe Gallinago andina
- Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
- Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
- Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris
- Snares Snipe Coenocorypha huegeli
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Subantarctic Snipe Coenocorypha aucklandica
- Sulawesi Woodcock Scolopax celebensis
- Surfbird Calidris virgata
- Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Tuamotu Sandpiper Prosobonia parvirostris
- Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
- Wandering Tattler Tringa incana
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Wilson's Phalarope Steganopus tricolor
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola