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Charadriiformes (/ k ə ˈ r æ d r i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / , from Charadrius , the type genus of family Charadriidae ) is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds . It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world.
A variety of methods are used for counting Charadriiformes. For example, the piping plover is subject to the quinquennial Piping Plover International Census, which is carried out in 9 Canadian provinces, 32 US states, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. In the 2006 survey, Saskatchewan alone had 159 volunteers scour 294 waterbodies.
Charadrii is a suborder of birds in the order Charadriiformes. It consists of the stone-curlews, Magellanic plover, sheathbills, Egyptian plover, plovers, stilts, avocets, ibisbill, and oystercatchers.
Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds.The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate.They are found throughout the world.
The family Charadriidae was introduced (as Charadriadæ) by the English zoologist William Elford Leach in a guide to the contents of the British Museum published in 1820. [1] [2] Most members of the family are known as plovers, lapwings or dotterels.
The spur-winged lapwing was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.He placed it with the plovers in the genus Charadrius and coined the binomial name Charadrius spinosus.
Pages in category "Charadriiformes" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, waders and many other groups are subsumed into a greatly enlarged order Ciconiiformes.However, the classification of the Charadriiformes is one of the weakest points of the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, as DNA–DNA hybridization has turned out to be incapable of properly resolving the interrelationships of the group.