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recurvirostridae (dict)

Recurvirostridae

• 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.

• 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

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