page_title: List of birds of Saint Helena
section_title: Sandpipers and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Saint Helena / Sandpipers and allies
caption_attribution_description: Sanderling (Calidris alba), Farallon, Panama, 2005 December Türkçe: Yürüyüşü sırasında adımını atarken görüntülenen bir ak kum kuşu (Calidris alba)
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded on Saint Helena. The avifauna of Saint Helena Island include a total of 68 species. Only one endemic species survives today, the Saint Helena plover. Several more endemics are extinct and known only from subfossil remains: the Saint Helena petrel, Olson's petrel, Saint Helena shearwater, Saint Helena crake, Saint Helena rail, Saint Helena dove, Saint Helena cuckoo and Saint Helena hoopoe. At least five non-endemics have been extirpated from Saint Helena but still occur elsewhere. Nine species have been introduced by humans and formed established breeding populations while many more species were introduced in the past but failed to become established. Of these, 43 species are rare or accidental visitors.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family account. Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for Saint Helena.
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. Variation in length of legs and bills enables multiple species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
  Green sandpiper, Tringa ochropus (A)
  Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres (A)
  Red knot,  Calidris canutus (A)
  Sanderling, Calidris alba (A)
  White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis (A)
  Pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos (A)
  Ruff, Calidris pugnax (A)
caption: Sanderling, a rare visitor from the Arctic
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