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Actual Scientific name : French name English name
Actitis hypoleucos Chevalier guignette  Common Sandpiper 
Arenaria interpres Tournepierre à collier  Ruddy Turnstone 
Calidris alba Bécasseau Sanderling  Sanderling 
Calidris ferruginea Bécasseau cocorli  Curlew Sandpiper 
Calidris minuta Bécasseau minute  Little Stint 
Gallinago gallinago gallinago Bécassine des marais  Common Snipe 
Gallinago media Bécassine double  Great Snipe 
Gallinago nigripennis angolensis Bécassine d'Afrique orientale  African Snipe 
Limosa limosa Barge à queue noire  Black-tailed Godwit 
Numenius phaeopus Courlis corlieu  Whimbrel 
Philomachus pugnax Chevalier combattant  Ruff 
Tringa erythropus Chevalier arlequin  Spotted Redshank 
Tringa glareola Chevalier sylvain  Wood Sandpiper 
Tringa nebularia Chevalier aboyeur  Greenshank 
Tringa ochropus Chevalier cul-blanc  Green Sandpiper 
Tringa stagnatilis Chevalier stagnatile  Marsh Sandpiper 
Xenus cinerea Barge de Terek  Terek Sandpiper 



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This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.

The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.

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