Charadriiformes

Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)

HBW 3, p. 444

Small to medium-sized waders with short to long legs; bill often long and may be straight, decurved or slightly recurved.
All regions except Antarctic; most species breed in Northern Hemisphere and are highly migratory.
Mainly coastal and on inland wetlands; breeds in open steppe, grassland, marsh, tundra, scrubland and even forest.
24 genera, 87 species, 134 taxa.
10 species threatened; 2 species and 1 subspecies extinct since 1600.

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5 1 1 3 8 1 Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
1 1 4 2 Amami Woodcock (Scolopax mira)
1 1 8 3 Rufous Woodcock (Scolopax saturata)
0 6 5 Sulawesi Woodcock (Scolopax celebensis)
0 3 6 Moluccan Woodcock (Scolopax rochussenii)
2 2 8 7 American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
0 4 8 Chatham Snipe (Coenocorypha pusilla)
2 1 1 6 9 Subantarctic Snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica)
6 5 1 8 10 Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
0 8 11 Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
10 2 8 8 12 Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
0 4 13 Wood Snipe (Gallinago nemoricola)
4 4 8 14 Pintail Snipe (Gallinago stenura)
1 1 8 15 Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)
3 1 2 8 16 African Snipe (Gallinago nigripennis)
0 6 17 Madagascar Snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla)
3 1 2 6 18 Great Snipe (Gallinago media)
34 1 8 25 8 19 Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
9 1 2 6 8 20 South American Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae)
0 8 22 Noble Snipe (Gallinago nobilis)
4 1 1 2 8 23 Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata)
0 6 24 Fuegian Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii)
1 1 8 25 Andean Snipe (Gallinago jamesoni)
1 1 6 26 Imperial Snipe (Gallinago imperialis)
14 1 4 9 8 27 Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
16 2 14 8 28 Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
6 1 5 6 29 Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus)
47 3 5 39 6 30 Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
4 2 2 8 31 Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)
31 6 25 8 32 Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
16 4 12 8 32 Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
0 2 33 Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis)
3 1 2 8 32 Little Curlew (Numenius minutus)
48 2 20 26 8 36 Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
2 1 1 4 37 Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)
1 1 2 38 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
22 1 2 19 6 39 Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata)
14 4 10 8 41 Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
5 1 4 8 40 Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)
5 1 2 2 8 42 Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
11 3 8 8 43 Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
26 3 5 18 8 44 Common Redshank (Tringa totanus)
25 11 14 8 45 Marsh Sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis)
26 3 7 16 8 46 Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
2 1 1 3 47 Nordmann's Greenshank (Tringa guttifer)
31 1 8 22 8 48 Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
31 1 8 22 8 49 Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
17 3 2 12 8 50 Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
22 1 3 18 8 51 Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
37 1 13 23 8 52 Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)
13 5 8 8 53 Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus)
37 2 8 27 8 54 Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
38 1 11 26 8 55 Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
17 7 10 8 56 Grey-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes)
13 3 10 8 57 Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus)
32 1 9 22 8 58 Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
1 1 3 59 Tuamotu Sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata)
84 1 31 52 8 60 Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
15 4 11 8 61 Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
20 5 15 8 62 Surfbird (Aphriza virgata)
5 4 1 8 63 Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
14 3 11 8 64 Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
56 17 39 8 65 Sanderling (Calidris alba)
22 5 17 8 66 Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
24 1 23 8 67 Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
27 4 23 8 68 Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis)
40 1 11 28 8 69 Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
7 1 2 4 8 70 Temminck's Stint (Calidris temminckii)
15 3 12 8 71 Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
28 10 18 8 72 Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
10 2 5 3 8 73 White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
14 2 12 8 74 Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
22 1 1 20 8 75 Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
30 5 25 8 76 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
46 2 9 35 8 77 Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
51 1 14 36 8 80 Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
19 7 12 8 78 Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
6 4 2 8 79 Rock Sandpiper (Calidris ptilocnemis)
7 1 6 8 83 Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus)
8 5 3 2 81 Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus)
9 2 7 8 82 Broad-billed Sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus)
18 6 12 6 84 Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
34 7 27 8 85 Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
22 5 17 8 86 Wilson's Phalarope (Steganopus tricolor)
39 2 10 27 8 87 Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
26 3 7 16 8 88 Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria)
10 3 7 8 4 Bukidnon Woodcock (Scolopax bukidnonensis)

Family statistics

24 genera, 87 species

1429 files covering
24 genera	(100%)
78 species	(90%)

1002 videos covering
23 genera	(96%)
71 species	(82%)

383 photographs covering
24 genera	(100%)
75 species	(86%)

44 sound recordings covering
12 genera	(50%)
29 species	(33%)

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