Definition of Family scolopacidae

1. Noun. Sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Scolopacidae

family Saxifragaceae
family Scarabaeidae
family Scaridae
family Scheuchzeriaceae
family Schistosomatidae
family Schizaeaceae
family Schizophyceae
family Schizosaccharomycetaceae
family Sciadopityaceae
family Sciaenidae
family Sciaridae
family Scincidae
family Sciuridae
family Sclerodermataceae
family Sclerotiniaceae
family Scolopacidae
family Scolytidae
family Scomberesocidae
family Scombresocidae
family Scombridae
family Scorpaenidae
family Scrophulariaceae
family Scutigeridae
family Scyliorhinidae
family Secotiaceae
family Selaginellaceae
family Sepiidae
family Septobasidiaceae
family Serranidae
family Sialidae

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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