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Family: Scolopacidae (turnstones, sandpipers, stints, snipe and curlews)
Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Tetrapoda (four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Reptilia (reptiles) > Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria > Dinosauria (dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) > Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves (birds) > Order: Charadriiformes
Actitis hypoleucos (Common sandpiper)
Arenaria interpres (Ruddy turnstone, Turnstone)
Calidris alba (Sanderling)
Calidris alpina (Dunlin)
Vagrant to southern Africa.
Calidris bairdii (Baird's sandpiper)
Calidris canutus (Red knot, Common knot)
Calidris ferruginea (Curlew sandpiper)
Calidris fuscicollis (White-rumped sandpiper)
Calidris melanotos (Pectoral sandpiper)
Calidris minuta (Little stint)
Calidris ruficollis (Red-necked stint)
Calidris subminuta (Long-toed stint)
Calidris temminckii (Temminck's stint)
Calidris tenuirostris (Great knot)
Vagrant to southern Africa
Gallinago media (Great snipe)
Gallinago nigripennis (African snipe, Ethiopian snipe)
Limicola falcinellus (Broad-billed sandpiper)
Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) Vagrant to southern Africa.
Limosa lapponica (Bar-tailed godwit)
Limosa limosa (Black-tailed godwit)
Numenius arquata (Eurasian curlew, Curlew)
Numenius phaeopus (Common whimbrel)
Phalaropus fulicaria (Red phalarope, Grey phalarope)
Phalaropus lobatus (Red-necked phalarope)
Philomachus pugnax (Ruff, Reeve (female))
Steganopus tricolor (Wilson's phalarope)
Tringa erythropus (Spotted redshank)
Tringa flavipes (Lesser yellowlegs)
Tringa glareola (Wood sandpiper)
Tringa melanoleuca (Greater yellowlegs)
Tringa nebularia (Common greenshank)
Tringa ochropus (Green sandpiper)
Tringa stagnatilis (Marsh sandpiper)
Tringa totanus (Common redshank)
Tryngites subruficollis (Buff-breasted sandpiper)
Xenus cinereus (Terek sandpiper)