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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scolopacidae

sandpipers

WoRMS 147429ITIS 176568key itis:176568
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2026-08-05: worms_id 147429 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Dysalatornis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Arenaria interpres

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Scolopacidae
Photo · Shiva Shenoy · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Scolopacidae is a large family of shorebirds, or waders, which mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews, and snipes. Most of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.W CalCOFI holds 3,594 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R

3,594
observations
3,594
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
3
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176568")