Sandpipers and Allies | Bird Family Guide

91 species

Every species in this family

The same 91 birds as a plain list, if you already know the name you want.

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
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
Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius hudsonicus
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
Magellanic Snipe Gallinago magellanica
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
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 Phalaropus tricolor
Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola