Calidrid

The calidrids and their allies are a group of Arctic breeding, strongly migratory wading birds. These birds form huge mixed flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter. They are the typical "peeps", small to medium-sized, long-winged and relatively short-billed.

Their bills have sensitive tips which enable them to locate buried prey items, which they typically seek with restless running and probing.

There are a number of species closely related to the calidrids which are listed after the main list.

Species are:

Family: Scolopacidae

• Great Knot, Calidris tenuirostris
• Red Knot[?], Calidris canutus
• Sanderling[?], Calidris alba
• Semipalmated Sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
• Western Sandpiper, Calidris mauri
• Red-necked Stint, Calidris ruficollis
• Little Stint[?], Calidris minuta
• Temminck's Stint[?], Calidris temminckii
• Long-toed Stint, Calidris subminuta
• Least Sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
• White-rumped Sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
• Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
• Pectoral Sandpiper[?], Calidris melanotos
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Calidris acuminata
• Curlew Sandpiper[?], Calidris ferruginea
• Purple Sandpiper[?], Calidris maritima
• Rock Sandpiper, Calidris ptilocnemis
• Dunlin[?], Calidris alpina

• Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
• Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus
• Stilt Sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis
• Ruff[?], Philomachus pugnax
• Surfbird, Aphriza virgata