All Species
54 Species in Family Scolopacidae
Nominal species list for Scolopacidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Actitis hypoleucos Linnaeus, 1758 Common sandpiper
Actitis macularius Linnaeus, 1766 Spotted sandpiper
Arenaria interpres (Linnaeus, 1758) Ruddy turnstone
Arenaria melanocephala (Vigors, 1829) Black turnstone
Calidris acuminata (Horsfield, 1821) Sharp-tailed sandpiper
Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764) Sanderling
Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758) Dunlin
Calidris bairdii (Coues, 1861) Baird's sandpiper
Calidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758) Red knot
Calidris falcinellus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763) Curlew sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollis (Vieillot, 1819) White-rumped sandpiper
Calidris himantopus (Bonaparte, 1826) Stilt sandpiper
Calidris maritima (Brünnich, 1764) Purple sandpiper
Calidris mauri (Cabanis, 1857) Western sandpiper
Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819) Pectoral sandpiper
Calidris minuta (Leisler, 1812) Little stint
Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819) Least sandpiper
Calidris ptilocnemis (Coues, 1873) Rock sandpiper
Calidris pusilla (Linnaeus, 1766) Semipalmated sandpiper
Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) Red-necked stint
Calidris subminuta (Middendorff, 1853) Long-toed stint
Calidris temminckii (Leisler, 1812) Temminck's stint
Calidris tenuirostris (Horsfield, 1821) Great knot
Eurynorhynchus pygmeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Limnodromus griseus (Gmelin, 1789) Short-billed dowitcher
Limnodromus semipalmatus (Blyth, 1848) Asian dowitcher
Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758) Marbled godwit
Limosa haemastica (Linnaeus, 1758) Hudsonian godwit
Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) Bar-tailed godwit
Limosa limosa (Linnaeus, 1758) Black-tailed godwit
Numenius americanus Bechstein, 1812 Long-billed curlew
Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Numenius borealis (Forster, 1772)
Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) Far Eastern curlew
Numenius minutus Gould, 1841 Little curlew
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Whimbrel
Numenius tahitiensis (Gmelin, 1789) Bar-tailed godwit
Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817
Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus, 1758) Red phalarope
Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Red-necked phalarope
Phalaropus tricolor Vieillot, 1819 Wilson's phalarope
Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816) Grey-tailed tattler
Tringa flavipes (Gmelin, 1789) Lesser yellowlegs
Tringa guttifer (Nordmann, 1835) Spotted greenshank
Tringa incana (Gmelin, 1789) Wandering tattler
Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789) Greater yellowlegs
Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus, 1767) Common greenshank
Tringa semipalmata (Gmelin, 1789) Willet
Tringa solitaria Wilson, 1813 Solitary sandpiper
Tringa stagnatilis (Bechstein, 1803) Marsh sandpiper
Tringa totanus (Linnaeus, 1758) Common redshank
Tryngites subruficollis (Vieillot, 1819) Buff-breasted sandpiper
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