Suborder Scolopaci contains one family, Scolopacidae. This family contrains the shorter-blled sandpipers and allies and also longer-billed species such as the godwits and curlews.


Genus Calidris
Calidrids have  sensitive bills that they use to probe along the shoreline to search for food. They often move their feet very rapidly as they run along the water's edge. They fly long distances and many of the species are found on a number of continents.

Knot, Red Calidris canutus   Found: The Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand
Photographed by: 1) Dick Daniels on Sanibel Island, Florida   2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8) Dick - North Carolina  
    7) Cláudio Timm in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1) Juvenile  2) Nonbreeding


Surfbird  Aphriza virgata  Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1, 2)  Len Blumin - Bodega Bay, California   3) Alan -Near Victoria, British Columbia
1) First summer  2, 3) Nonbreeding  4) Breeding


Sanderling Calidris alba   Found: The Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia
 1) Dick Daniels - Homer, Alaska  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Dick - North Carolina
Sept (juvenile), Jan, Feb, Mar

Apr, May, Sept, Nov


Sandpiper, Baird's Calidris bairdii     Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1)  Dominic Sherony  2) Maggie Smith - Old Creek, Cayucos, California 
2) Juvenile


Sandpiper, Least Calidris minutilla   Found: The Americas
Photographed by:   1) Len Blumin  - Sacramento Landing, California,
    2) Alan D Wilson - Grant Narrows Regional Park, Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia
    3, 5, 6, 8) Dick Daniels in:North Carolina  7) Dick - New Jersey   4) New Jersy Birds



Sandpiper, Pectoral Calidris melanotos   Found: The Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand
Photographed by:  1) Alan D Wilson - Cattle Point, Uplands, Near Victoria, British Columbia
    2) Dick Daniels - New Jersey 3) Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil  4)  Dominic Sherony


Sandpiper, Semipalmated Calidris pusilla   Found: The Americas
Photographed by:  1 - 3) Dick Daniels - North Carolina 


Sandpiper, Stilt  Calidris himantopus  Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1) Len Blumin - Indian Point Park, Texas  2) Dan Pancamo   3)  Dominic Sherony


Sandpiper, Western Calidris mauri   Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels - North Carolina
   4) Alan D Wilson - Cattle Point, Uplands, Near Victoria, British Columbia
1) Semipalmated or Western   2, 3) note the partially webbed foot (semipalmated also partially webbed)


Sandpiper, White-rumped  Calidris fuscicollis  Found: The Americas
Photographed by:  1, 2, 3) Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

 


Genus Renaria

Turnstone, Ruddy Arenaria interpres   North America, Europe, Asia, and visits many other coastlines
Photographed by:  1, 2, 3, 5, 7)  Dick Daniels - North Carolina   4) Dick on Sanibel Island, Florida  6) Dick - Negril, Jamaica




Genus Tryngites - 1 species

Sandpiper, Buff-breasted  Tryngites subruficollis Found: The Americas, Africa
Photographed by: 1) Dominic Sherony  2, 3) Tim Lenz  4) Cláudio Timm - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil