In general, they have plump bodies, short tails, longish necks with small heads, and long, pointed wings for fast, long distance flight. Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies range from the sparrow-sized “peeps” to the heron-sized curlews. The Sanderling is known for its habit of running on beaches to pursue and retreat from waves in its attempt to remain at the very edge of the water. Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies are known for their affinity for the water’s edge. Included among these birds are the large, long-billed godwits and curlews, the harlequin-like Ruddy Turnstone, and a variety of sandpiper species. In North America, sixty-five species of sandpipers, phalaropes and allies in eighteen genera have occurred. Sandpipers, phalaropes and allies are in the Scolopacidae (pronounced skoh-loh-PAY-suh-dee) family, a group of ninety-one species of wading birds in twenty-one genera occurring nearly worldwide. The gulls, plovers, sheathbills of the Antarctic, predatory skuas, and sandpipers are five of the nineteen families in the taxonomic order CHARADRIIFORMES (pronounced kah-RAH-dree-ih-FOR-meez). Sandpipers, Phalaropes and Allies (Scolopacidae)
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