Twenty-one species of the Scolopacidae (sandpipers, curlews, phalaropes, dowitchers and godwits) have been reported to occur on campus:
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Pachena Bay, Vancouver Island, BC (3 May 2015)
(On-campus photo not available)
Long-billed Curlew (Numinous americanus)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (12 April 2012)
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Long Beach, Washington, US (12 November 2017)
(On-campus photo not available)
Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
Photo: Blythe Nilson
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (30 August 2018)
White-Rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
Photo: Blythe Nilson
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (30 August 2018)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (12 August 2018)
Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (24 May 2013)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Photo: Blythe Nilson
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (1 May 2019)
Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Robert Lake, Kelowna, BC (26 May 2012)
Photo: Blythe Nilson
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (12 June 2018)
Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropes lobatus)
Photo: Blythe Nilson
Location: North end of Tutt Pond (south of John Hindle Drive near the landfill), UBC Okanagan (8 May 2018)
Solitary sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Redwing Pond (behind the EME building), UBC Okanagan (12 September 2017)
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (4 May 2018)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Lesser Yellowlegs is at right (Greater Yellowlegs is at left side of photo).
Photo: Ian Walker
Location: Robert Lake, UBC Okanagan (4 May 2018)