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Scolopacidae · 44 species

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Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdiiSandpipers & Snipes
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaSandpipers & Snipes
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaSandpipers & Snipes
Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisSandpipers & Snipes
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosSandpipers & Snipes
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoSandpipers & Snipes
CurlewNumenius arquataSandpipers & Snipes
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaSandpipers & Snipes
DunlinCalidris alpinaSandpipers & Snipes
Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticolaSandpipers & Snipes
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaSandpipers & Snipes
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusSandpipers & Snipes
GreenshankTringa nebulariaSandpipers & Snipes
Grey PhalaropePhalaropus fulicariusSandpipers & Snipes
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemasticaSandpipers & Snipes
Hudsonian WhimbrelNumenius hudsonicusSandpipers & Snipes
Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimusSandpipers & Snipes
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaSandpipers & Snipes
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesSandpipers & Snipes
Little StintCalidris minutaSandpipers & Snipes
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceusSandpipers & Snipes
Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoaSandpipers & Snipes
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosSandpipers & Snipes
Purple SandpiperCalidris maritimaSandpipers & Snipes
Red KnotCalidris canutusSandpipers & Snipes
Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatusSandpipers & Snipes
RedshankTringa totanusSandpipers & Snipes
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresSandpipers & Snipes
RuffCalidris pugnaxSandpipers & Snipes
SanderlingCalidris albaSandpipers & Snipes
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusillaSandpipers & Snipes
Sharp-tailed SandpiperCalidris acuminataSandpipers & Snipes
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseusSandpipers & Snipes
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaSandpipers & Snipes
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropusSandpipers & Snipes
Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopusSandpipers & Snipes
Temminck's StintCalidris temminckiiSandpipers & Snipes
Upland SandpiperBartramia longicaudaSandpipers & Snipes
Western SandpiperCalidris mauriSandpipers & Snipes
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusSandpipers & Snipes
White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollisSandpipers & Snipes
WilletTringa semipalmataSandpipers & Snipes
Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolorSandpipers & Snipes
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaSandpipers & Snipes

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Estonia23
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Lithuania23
Mongolia23

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