☞ The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper (), called also , , and ; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (); the purple sandpiper (: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (); the semipalmated sandpiper (); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (); the buff-breasted sandpiper (), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under

Upland

. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (syn. ), called also , , , , and . Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called .