page_title: List of birds of Iowa
section_title: Sandpipers and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Iowa / Sandpipers and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: A Willet (Tringa semipalmata, previously Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) in Panama.
context_page_description: This list of birds of Iowa includes species documented in the U.S. state of Iowa and accepted by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. As of July 2020, there are 430 species included in the official list. Of them, 92 are classed as accidental, 25 are classed as casual, eight have been introduced to North America, three are extinct, and one has been extirpated.
  Only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Iowa are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Iowa, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following codes are used to designate some species:
  Accidental - "seen once to several times, but less than 4 of last 10 years" per the IOU
context_section_description: Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Scolopacidae
  Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers, and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of legs and bills enable multiple species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food. Thirty-four species have been recorded in Iowa.
  Upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda
  Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus
  Eskimo curlew, Numenius borealis (E)
  Long-billed curlew, Numenius americanus (A)
  Bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica (A)
  Hudsonian godwit, Limosa haemastica
  Marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa
  Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres
  Red knot, Calidris canutus (C)
  Ruff, Calidris pugnax (C)
  Sharp-tailed sandpiper, Calidris acuminata (A)
  Stilt sandpiper, Calidris himantopus
  Curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea (A)
  Sanderling, Calidris alba
  Dunlin, Calidris alpina
  Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
  Least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
  White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
  Buff-breasted sandpiper, Calidris subruficollis
  Pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos
  Semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
  Western sandpiper, Calidris mauri
  Short-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus
  Long-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus
  American woodcock, Scolopax minor
  Wilson's snipe, Gallinago delicata
  Spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularius
  Solitary sandpiper, Tringa solitaria
  Lesser yellowlegs, Tringa flavipes
  Willet, Tringa semipalmata
  Greater yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
  Wilson's phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor
  Red-necked phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus
  Red phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius (C)
caption: Willet
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