Snakebunk – Animalia – Aves – Charadriiformes

Scolopacidae

This is a large family of waders or shorebirds. Most of them eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.

Genus

• Numenius, curlews
• Limosa, godwits
• Scolopax, woodcocks
• Gallinago, snipes
• Phalaropus, wadepipers
• Actitis, sandpipers
• Tringa, shanks
• Arenaria, turnstones
• Calidris, small to medium sized migratory wading birds