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Scolopacidae

sandpipers

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

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Phalaropus most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176568")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 2 taxa · Phalaropus most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Animalia to Charadriiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗