page_title: List of birds of Prince Edward Island
section_title: Sandpipers and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Prince Edward Island / Sandpipers and allies
caption_attribution_description: White-rumped Sandpiper - Sandy Lake, Two Hills County
context_page_description: The Canadian province of Prince Edward Island's Department of Agriculture and Forestry most recently published its Field Checklist of Birds in 2014, identifying 369 species of birds observed in the province. Since that checklist was published, five more species have been added from eBird records through early July 2020. Of the resulting 371 species presented here, 82 are accidental, 38 are occasional, and 13 are hypothetical as defined below. Three species were introduced to Prince Edward Island and another four were introduced elsewhere in North America.
  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 Canadian English spellings are used and the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following tags are used to categorise some species. The DAF Checklist provides abundance codes by season, and species may be abundant in one season and accidental in another.
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.
  Upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda (A)
  Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus
  Eskimo curlew, Numenius borealis (H) (Extirpated, possibly extinct)
  Long-billed curlew, Numenius americanus (H)
  Black-tailed godwit, Limosa limosa (A)
  Hudsonian godwit, Limosa haemastica
  Marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa (A)
  Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres
  Red knot, Calidris canutus
  Ruff, Calidris pugnax (O)
  Sharp-tailed sandpiper, Calidris acuminata (A)
  Stilt sandpiper, Calidris himantopus
  Curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea (O)
  Sanderling, Calidris alba
  Dunlin, Calidris alpina
  Purple sandpiper, Calidris maritima
  Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
  Little stint, Calidris minuta (A)
  Least sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
  White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
  Buff-breasted sandpiper, Calidris subruficollis (O)
  Pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos
  Semipalmated sandpiper, Calidris pusilla
  Western sandpiper, Calidris mauri (O)
  Short-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus
  Long-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus (A)
  American woodcock, Scolopax minor
  Wilson's snipe, Gallinago delicata
  Spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularia
  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 (O)
caption: White-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis
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