Recurvirostridae (original) (raw)
| Recurvirostridae |
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| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Recurvirostridae |
| Genera Recurvirostra Himantopus Cladorhynchus |
Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups:
- The avocets, with long legs and long up curved bills which they sweep from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands they prefer.
- The stilts which have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
Taxonomy.
- ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES
- Suborder Charadrii: waders
- Family Thinocoridae: seedsnipe
- Family Pedionomidae: Plains Wanderer
- Family Scolopacidae: snipe, sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies
- Family Rostratulidae: painted snipe
- Family Jacanidae: jacanas
- Family Chionididae: sheathbills
- Family Burhinidae: thick-knees
- Family Haematopodidae: oystercatchers
- Family Recurvirostridae:
* Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
* American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
* Red-necked Avocet Recurvirostra novaehollandiae
* Andean Avocet Recurvirostra andina
* Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
* Black Stilt Himantopus novaezelandiae
* Banded Stilt Cladorhynchus leucocephalus - Family Ibidorhynchidae: Ibisbill
- Family Charadriidae plovers and lapwings
- Family Pluvianellidae: Magellanic Plover
- Family Dromadidae: Crab Plover
- Family Glareolidae: pratincoles and coursers
- Suborder Lari: gulls and allies; 4 families
- Suborder Alcae: auks; 1 family