Recurvirostridae

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

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