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Sandpipers, curlews, woodcocks, phalaropes, etc.
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
86 species
worldwide in open areas;
12-65 cm; bill slender, often long; wings long; 4 toes long;
feed principally on invertebrates, and/or aquatic vertebrates
diversity of mating systems; elaborate courtship in some species; sexes similar in most species; some species polyandrous with female larger than male, some are polygynous with larger males; uniparental or biparental care; 2-4, usually 4 eggs.
Common Redshank Tringa totanus calling