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Definition of Family Scolopacidae
1. Noun. Sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Charadrii, Suborder Charadrii
Member holonyms: Sandpiper, Aphriza, Genus Aphriza, Actitis, Genus Actitis, Erolia, Genus Erolia, Genus Tringa, Tringa, Calidris, Genus Calidris, Crocethia, Genus Crocethia, Bartramia, Genus Bartramia, Genus Philomachus, Philomachus, Genus Heteroscelus, Heteroscelus, Catoptrophorus, Genus Catoptrophorus, Genus Scolopax, Scolopax, Genus Philohela, Philohela, Capella, Gallinago, Genus Capella, Genus Gallinago, Genus Limnocryptes, Limnocryptes, Genus Limnodromus, Limnodromus, Genus Numenius, Numenius, Genus Limosa, Limosa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Scolopacidae
Literary usage of Family Scolopacidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"Family SCOLOPACIDAE. Members of this family are long-legged waders, of either
large or small size, and found either about streams or ponds in the interior ..."
2. Color Key to North American Birds: With Bibliographical Appendix by Frank Michler Chapman, Chester Albert Reed (1912)
"Many of the members of the family Scolopacidae are probing Snipe. The Woodcock,
Wilson Snipe, and Dowitcher are good examples. ..."
3. The Water-fowl Family by Leonard Cutler Sanford, Louis Bennett Bishop, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1903)
"family Scolopacidae. The Woodcocks, Snipes, Sandpipers, etc. This is the largest
family of the shore-birds, and of it about forty-five species have been ..."
4. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"family Scolopacidae. Snipes, Sandpipers, Godwits, Yellow-legs, Willets, Dowitchers
and Curlews, b. Front of tarsus as in preceeding; bill stout; ..."
5. History of Saginaw County, Michigan by Michael A. Leeson, Damon Clarke (1881)
"The family Scolopacidae includes the woodcock, American snipe, red-breasted snipe,
upland plover, long-billed curlew, stilt sandpiper, semipalmated, least, ..."
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