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Sandpipers - Scolopacidae

Group Description

Small to medium sized Wading birds which scour through mud looking for small invertebrates in mud of farmland, salt marshes, coasts, flood plains, mudflats, estuaries, river sides etc.

SubGroups

name latinname species sightings media image
Curlew Numenius arquata 1 2 12 image for Curlew
Redshank Tringa totanus 1 1 2 image for Redshank