Sandpiper

SANDPIPER is the common name for a large, varied family of shorebirds, the Scolopacidae. They have long, slender bills, relatively long legs for wading and a hind toe. They prefer wet shorelines, either fresh or salt water, where they congregate in flocks and forage for food. Along with true sandpipers, the family includes yellowlegs, willets, tattlers, whimbrels, curlews, godwits, turnstones, surfbirds, knots, sanderlings, dunlins, ruffs, dowitchers, snipes and phalaropes. The vast majority...

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