bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Charadrii, suborder Charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews

plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers

Charadrius, genus Charadrius - type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers

genus Pluvialis, Pluvialis - golden plovers

genus Vanellus, Vanellus - Eurasian lapwings

Arenaria, genus Arenaria - turnstones