species) That the Charadriiformes are an ancient group is also borne out by the fossil record. Alongside the Anseriformes, the Charadriiformes are the only...

Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or...

of Charadriiformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Charadriiformes (Charadrius...

Auks or alcids are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets...

seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) is a bird in suborder Scolopaci of order Charadriiformes, the shorebirds. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador...

Laridae is a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns, noddies, skimmers, and white terns (who aren't true terns)...

orders: Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruiformes (cranes and rails) Charadriiformes (shorebirds, gulls and alcids)   The following cladogram illustrates...

Haematopodidae Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Charadriidae Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Rostratulidae Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Jacanidae 2...

resemblance to quail, and form the family Turnicidae in the order Charadriiformes. The king quail, an Old World quail, often is sold in the pet trade...

Heliornithidae Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Burhinidae Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Recurvirostridae Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Charadriidae...

Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Scolopaci Family: Pedionomidae Bonaparte, 1856 Genus: Pedionomus...

Waders may refer to: Wader, a name for various birds in the order Charadriiformes Waders (footwear) a type of waterproof boot This disambiguation page...

sequence data indicate that turnicids correctly belong to the shorebirds (Charadriiformes). They seem to be an ancient group among these, as indicated by the...

hummingbirds) Opisthocomiformes Opisthocomiformes (hoatzins) Cursorimorphae Charadriiformes (gulls and relatives) Gruiformes (cranes and relatives) Phaethontimorphae...

central Asia and the Himalayas. The ibisbill belongs to the order Charadriiformes which also includes the sandpipers, plovers, terns, auks, gulls, skuas...

auk was the second-largest member of both its family and the order Charadriiformes overall, surpassed only by the mancalline Miomancalla. It is, however...

  Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species   Critically endangered (CR): 223 species   Endangered (EN): 460 species   Vulnerable (VU): 798 species   Near threatened...

Scolopacidae) but members of the family Burhinidae, which is in the same order Charadriiformes, but only distantly related within that. The genus Numenius was erected...

Scolopaci is a suborder of wading birds within the order Charadriiformes containing the following families: Family Rostratulidae – painted-snipes (3 species)...

sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae. Classified in the wader order Charadriiformes, the family consists of one genus, Chionis with two species. They breed...

genus of prehistoric birds that could be related to Gruiformes and Charadriiformes. It is known from the Early Eocene Green River Formation (Fossil Butte...

Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Scolopaci Family: Scolopacidae Groups included Lymnocryptes...

Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded...

The suborder Lari is the part of the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns, skuas and skimmers; the rest of the order is made up of the...

PA (December 2005). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Laridae (Charadriiformes: Aves) inferred from mitochondrial markers". Molecular Phylogenetics...

tero-tero in Paraguay, and queltehue in Chile is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. It is a common and widespread resident throughout South America, except...

(2008). "DNA evidence for a Paleocene origin of the Alcidae (Aves: Charadriiformes) in the Pacific and multiple dispersals across northern oceans". Molecular...

distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae. Its relationship within the Charadriiformes is unclear, some have considered it to be closely related to the thick-knees...

This list includes those birds of South Asia in the non-passerine families other than the Megapodes, Galliformes, Gruiformes and near passerines. For an...

Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Jacanidae Genus: Actophilornis Oberholser, 1925 Type species...