page_title: List of birds of Kansas
section_title: Sandpipers and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Kansas / Sandpipers and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes), Whitby, Ontario, Canada, 2005 October Français&#160;: Petit Chevalier observé à Whitby, Ontario, Canada, en octobre 2005
context_page_description: This list of birds of Kansas includes species documented in the U.S. state of Kansas and accepted by the Kansas Ornithological Society. As of March 2020, there are 479 species included in the official list. Of them, 70 are classed as accidental, 12 are classed as hypothetical, and five have been introduced to North America. In addition to the 479, two species are extinct and one has been extirpated.
  Only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Kansas are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Kansas, 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.
  These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Accidental – "Fewer than ten Kansas records" per the KOS
  Extinct – a recent species that no longer exists
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
  Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus
  Eskimo curlew, Numenius borealis (generally considered as possibly extinct)
  Long-billed curlew, Numenius americanus
  Hudsonian godwit, Limosa haemastica
  Marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa
  Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres
  Red knot, Calidris canutus
  Ruff, Calidris pugnax
  Stilt sandpiper, Calidris himantopus
  Curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea (A)
  Red-necked stint, Calidris ruficollis (A)
  Sanderling, Calidris alba
  Dunlin, Calidris alpina
  Purple sandpiper, Calidris maritima (A)
  Baird's sandpiper, Calidris bairdii
  Little stint, Calidris minuta (A)
  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
  Spotted redshank, Tringa erythropus (A)
  Greater yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca
  Wilson's phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor
  Red-necked phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus
  Red phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius
caption: Lesser yellowlegs
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