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

sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers

Aphriza, genus Aphriza - a genus of Scolopacidae

Actitis, genus Actitis - a genus of Scolopacidae

Erolia, genus Erolia - a genus of Scolopacidae

genus Tringa, Tringa - a genus of Scolopacidae

Calidris, genus Calidris - a genus of Scolopacidae

Crocethia, genus Crocethia - a genus of Scolopacidae

Bartramia, genus Bartramia - a genus of Scolopacidae

genus Philomachus, Philomachus - ruffs

genus Heteroscelus, Heteroscelus - tattlers

Catoptrophorus, genus Catoptrophorus - willet

genus Scolopax, Scolopax - type of the Scolopacidae: Old World woodcocks

genus Philohela, Philohela - American woodcocks

Gallinago, genus Capella, genus Gallinago, Capella - snipes

genus Limnocryptes, Limnocryptes - snipe

genus Limnodromus, Limnodromus - dowitchers

genus Numenius, Numenius - curlews

genus Limosa, Limosa - godwits