Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies65 Bird Species
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American WoodcockThis uniquely shaped shorebird is plump, round-winged. long-billed, and appears to lack both a neck and a tail. The long bill is pinkish, with a black tip. The eyes are set far back on the head to allow the bird to see behind it as well as in front. The upperparts are finely mottled black, brown, buf more... Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 46 cm |
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Baird's SandpiperIn all plumages, this species is distinguished from the other small sandpipers by its short black legs, all-black bill which is straight or only slightly decurved, and wing tips that extend well beyond the tail. Alternate Adult: Back and scapular feathers black and brown with silvery fringes. Head an more... Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 38 cm |
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Bar-tailed GodwitThis species gets its name from the black and white barring on the tail. In flight, the upper surface of the wing is gray-brown, slightly darker on the primary coverts, and lacks a wing stripe. The Siberian race shows black and white barring on the rump and lower back, and on the underside of the win more... Length: 37 cm Wingspan: 69 cm |
Black TurnstoneThis stocky shorebird of rocky West Coast shorelines is recognized by its bold black and white pattern. The black bill is fairly short and chisel-shaped. The legs are dull brown to dark orange. Alternate Adult: Upperparts are glossy black, with fine white streaks on the crown, a white spot near the b more... Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 43 cm |
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Black-tailed GodwitThis rare visitor from Eurasia is similar to Hudsonian Godwit. Black-tailed has a bolder white stripe on the upper surface of the wing, extending from the primaries clear through the secondaries (stripe does not extend through secondaries on Hudsonian). The underside of the Black-tailed's wing is whi more... Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 74 cm |
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Bristle-thighed CurlewThis species gets its name from the odd bristles at the base of the legs. It matches Whimbrel in size, shape, and head pattern, but Bristle-thighed shows much more buff, compared to the cold gray-brown of Whimbrel. In all plumages, the buff tail with black barring and plain buffy rump are distinctive more... Length: 41 cm Wingspan: 81 cm |
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Broad-billed SandpiperThis little sandpiper, a rare visitor from Eurasia, is distinguished by its long heavy bill, which has a downward kink near the tip, and by its striped plumage. Alternate Adult: Blackish upperparts with broad buff and rufous feather edges that create pale stripes down the back. Two white stripes abov more... Length: 17 cm Wingspan: 38 cm |
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Buff-breasted SandpiperIn posture, shape, and habits this long-distance migrant is somewhat suggestive of a golden-plover. It stands upright, has long wings and proportionally long legs and a short, straight, thin bill. The plain buffy face, and beady black eye give this species a pigeon-headed look. In all plumages, the b more... Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 41 cm |
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Common GreenshankThis rare visitor from Eurasia is very similar to Greater Yellowlegs. The bill is gray with a dark tip, slightly upturned, and comprises over half of the total length of the head. The legs are dull green to yellow-green. In flight, the tail shows much white, and a white wedge extends from the rump up more... Length: 31 cm Wingspan: 58 cm |
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Common RedshankMid-sized Eurasian shorebird that resembles Greater Yellowlegs; adults have distinctive, red legs. Whitish eyering with dark lores. Long, straight bill. Alternate Adult: Barred grayish-brown upperparts with coarsely streaked underparts. Dark bill with reddish base. Basic Adult: Plain gray with thin w more... Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 56 cm |
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Common SandpiperThis Eurasian species strongly resembles Spotted Sandpiper in appearance and behavior. Alternate Adult: Dark brown above, with fine black streaks. The tertails are barred with black. The sides of the upper breast match the color of the upperparts and are also finely streaked with black. The remainder more... Length: 18 cm Wingspan: 38 cm |
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Common SnipeThis Eurasian species is nearly identical to Wilson's Snipe, and until recently was considered the same species. The two differ only in the pattern on the underside of the wing and by the number of tail feathers. Common Snipe shows extensive white on the underwing coverts and axillaries. These areas more... Length: 27 cm Wingspan: 39 cm |
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Curlew SandpiperIn non-breeding plumages, this Eurasian species resembles a Dunlin, but note the longer black legs, longer wings that extend beyond the tail, thinner, more evenly decurved bill, and white rump. Alternate Male: Bright chestnut face and underparts are distinctive. Upperparts are mottled rufous, black, more... Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 37 cm |
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DunlinA mid-sized shorebird with relatively long, decurved bill. Alternate adult has rusty reddish brown back, mostly white underparts with a large black belly patch. Foreneck and breast marked with fine dusky streaks, flanks, vent and undertail unmarked white. Head shows medium reddish-brown crown with fi more... Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 43 cm |
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Eskimo CurlewThis species, formerly among the most abundant North American shorebirds, is now likely extinct. Sightings are occasionally reported, but the last confirmed occurrence was a bird shot in 1963. Eskimo Curlews strongly resemble Little Curlews and juvenile Whimbrels. Upperparts are dark brown with buffy more... Length: 32 cm Wingspan: cm |
Eurasian CurlewLarge shorebird with long, decurved dark bill with limited pale base. Heavily streaked upperparts with lighter streaking on head, breast and sides. Whitish to buffy belly. Whitish underwings and very pale tail with thin barring. White patch on rump and lower back. Juvenile much browner overall with m more... Length: 54 cm Wingspan: 97 cm |
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American Woodcock
5 Photographs -
Baird's Sandpiper
19 Photographs -
Bar-tailed Godwit
12 Photographs -
Black Turnstone
8 Photographs -
Black-tailed Godwit
7 Photographs -
Bristle-thighed Curlew
4 Photographs -
Broad-billed Sandpiper
0 Photographs -
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
18 Photographs -
Common Greenshank
2 Photographs -
Common Redshank
3 Photographs -
Common Sandpiper
1 Photograph -
Common Snipe
3 Photographs -
Curlew Sandpiper
2 Photographs -
Dunlin
16 Photographs -
Eskimo Curlew
0 Photographs -
Eurasian Curlew
2 Photographs
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Non-vegetated Areas |
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Solitary SnipeGallinago solitaria |
Alpine Slopes, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks |
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Salt Water |
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Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdii |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows |
Black TurnstoneArenaria melanocephala |
Rocky Shores, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows |
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Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers |
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Buff-breasted SandpiperTryngites subruficollis |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Common GreenshankTringa nebularia |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Common RedshankTringa totanus |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks |
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Common SnipeGallinago gallinago |
Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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DunlinCalidris alpina |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Eskimo CurlewNumenius borealis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Gray-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Great KnotCalidris tenuirostris |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest |
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Green SandpiperTringa ochropus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Boreal Forest |
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Little CurlewNumenius minutus |
Beaches, Open Country and Grasslands, Boreal Forest |
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Little StintCalidris minuta |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Lakes Resevoirs |
Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Long-toed StintCalidris subminuta |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa |
Estuaries and Bays, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos |
Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Purple SandpiperCalidris maritima |
Rocky Shores |
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Red KnotCalidris canutus |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Red PhalaropePhalaropus fulicarius |
Open Ocean, Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Sewage Treatment Plants, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus |
Open Ocean, Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers |
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Red-necked StintCalidris ruficollis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Rock SandpiperCalidris ptilocnemis |
Rocky Shores, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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RuffCalidris pugnax |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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SanderlingCalidris alba |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminata |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Spoon-billed SandpiperCalidris pygmea |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows |
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SurfbirdCalidris virgata |
Rocky Shores, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
Temminck's StintCalidris temminckii |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Boreal Forest |
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Wandering TattlerTringa incana |
Rocky Shores, Streams and Brooks |
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Western SandpiperCalidris mauri |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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WilletTringa semipalmata |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolor |
Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Human-altered Areas |
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Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest |
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Red PhalaropePhalaropus fulicarius |
Open Ocean, Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Sewage Treatment Plants, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus |
Open Ocean, Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers |
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Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria |
Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Southern Wooded Swamps, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius |
Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains |
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Fresh Water |
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Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdii |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Broad-billed SandpiperCalidris falcinellus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers |
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Buff-breasted SandpiperTryngites subruficollis |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Common GreenshankTringa nebularia |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Common RedshankTringa totanus |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks |
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Common SnipeGallinago gallinago |
Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferruginea |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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DunlinCalidris alpina |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Gray-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest |
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Green SandpiperTringa ochropus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Boreal Forest |
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimus |
Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers |
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Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Little StintCalidris minuta |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Long-toed StintCalidris subminuta |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa |
Estuaries and Bays, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Marsh SandpiperTringa stagnatilis |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos |
Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Pin-tailed SnipeGallinago stenura |
Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Red KnotCalidris canutus |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Red PhalaropePhalaropus fulicarius |
Open Ocean, Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Sewage Treatment Plants, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus |
Open Ocean, Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers |
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Red-necked StintCalidris ruficollis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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RuffCalidris pugnax |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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SanderlingCalidris alba |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminata |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Slender-billed CurlewNumenius tenuirostris |
Fresh Water Marshes |
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Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria |
Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Southern Wooded Swamps, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Solitary SnipeGallinago solitaria |
Alpine Slopes, Ponds and Rivers, Streams and Brooks |
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Spotted RedshankTringa erythropus |
Fresh Water Marshes |
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Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius |
Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains |
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Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus |
Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers |
Temminck's StintCalidris temminckii |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Wandering TattlerTringa incana |
Rocky Shores, Streams and Brooks |
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Western SandpiperCalidris mauri |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes |
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WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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WilletTringa semipalmata |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes |
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Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolor |
Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs |
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Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata |
Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Wood SandpiperTringa glareola |
Fresh Water Marshes |
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Grassland and Scrubland |
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Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdii |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosa |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Bristle-thighed CurlewNumenius tahitiensis |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Buff-breasted SandpiperTryngites subruficollis |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Eskimo CurlewNumenius borealis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquata |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Great KnotCalidris tenuirostris |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimus |
Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Little CurlewNumenius minutus |
Beaches, Open Country and Grasslands, Boreal Forest |
Long-billed CurlewNumenius americanus |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Pin-tailed SnipeGallinago stenura |
Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands |
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Rock SandpiperCalidris ptilocnemis |
Rocky Shores, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius |
Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains |
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SurfbirdCalidris virgata |
Rocky Shores, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda |
Open Country and Grasslands |
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WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus |
Rocky Shores, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows |
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Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata |
Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Forest and Woodlands |
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American WoodcockScolopax minor |
Eastern Deciduous Forest |
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Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticola |
Eastern Deciduous Forest, Thickets |
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Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca |
Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest |
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Green SandpiperTringa ochropus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Boreal Forest |
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica |
Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimus |
Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Little CurlewNumenius minutus |
Beaches, Open Country and Grasslands, Boreal Forest |
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Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria |
Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Southern Wooded Swamps, Boreal Forest, Northern Wooded Swamps |
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Terek SandpiperXenus cinereus |
Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Boreal Forest |
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Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata |
Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands, Northern Wooded Swamps |