Family Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, & Allies

RARE (Annual or probably annual in small numbers; most such species occur at the perimeter of Alaska, in season; a few are scarce residents)
CASUAL (Not annual; these species are beyond the periphery of annual range, but recur in Alaska at irregular intervals, usually in seasonal and regional patterns)
ACCIDENTAL (One or two Alaska records)

Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus (1)	Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica	Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos (1)	Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica	Rock Sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis
Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius	Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa	Dunlin Calidris alpina
Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus (2)	Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres	Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea (2)
Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria	Black Turnstone Arenaria melanocephala	Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes	Surfbird Aphriza virgata	Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus (2)
Wandering Tattler Tringa incana	Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris (2)	Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus (2)
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus (2)	Red Knot Calidris canutus	Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca	Sanderling Calidris alba	Ruff Philomachus pugnax (1)
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia (1)	Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla	Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes	Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri	Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis (2)	Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis	Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus (3)
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola	Little Stint Calidris minuta (2)	Wilson’s Snipe Gallinago delicata
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda	Temminck’s Stint Calidris temminckii (2)	Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
Little Curlew Numenius minutus (3)	Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (1)	Pin-tailed Snipe Gallinago stenura (3)
Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis (last seen in 1886)	Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla	Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor (2)
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus	White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (1)	Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
Bristle-thighed Curlew Numenius tahitiensis	Baird’s Sandpiper Calidris bairdii	Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius
Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis (2)	Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa (2)	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata	Back