Family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers & allies)

Scolopacidae is a large family of migratory waders including Curlews, Sandpipers, Snipes, Godwits and Phalaropes. All are cryptically plumaged and long-billed, and often long-legged.

23 species photographed. See the Australian birds list.

Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii

Latham's Snipe
Latham's Snipe

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa

Black-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica

Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit

Little Curlew Numenius minutus

Little Curlew

Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

Whimbrel

Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis

Eastern Curlew
Eastern Curlew
Eastern Curlew
Eastern Curlew

Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus

Terek Sandpiper

Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes

Grey-tailed Tattler
Grey-tailed Tattler
Grey-tailed Tattler

Wandering Tattler Tringa incana

Wandering Tattler

Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia

Common Greenshank

Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis

Marsh Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola

Wood Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone

Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus

Asian Dowitcher

Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris

Great Knot
Great Knot

Red Knot Calidris canutus

Red Knot

Sanderling Calidris alba

Sanderling

Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis

Red-necked Stint
Red-necked Stint
Red-necked Stint
Red-necked Stint

Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos

Pectoral Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea

Curlew Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis

Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus

Broad-billed Sandpiper