The early bird may get the worm, but the sleepless sandpiper gets the chicks. Male pectoral sandpipers that sleep less than their counterparts during the bird's intense three-week breeding season mate ...

Cuteness aside, though, sandpipers are pretty confusing, because "sandpiper" is both a species name and the colloquial name for the Scolopacidae family of birds. There are dozens of Scolopacidae ...