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Recurvirostridae

Recurvirostridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Recurvirostridae
Genera
Recurvirostra
Himantopus
Cladorhynchus

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.

Referenced By

American Avocet | Avocet | Black-necked Stilt | Black-winged Stilt | Burhinidae | Charadriidae | Charadriiformes | Crab Plover | Dromadidae | Glareolidae | Greater Painted Snipe | Jacana | List of British birds: Non-passerines | List of North American birds: non-passerines | List of birds | List of birds on Wikipedia | Magellanic Plover | North American birds | Oystercatcher | Painted Snipe | Pied Avocet | Pluvianellidae | Recurvirostridae | Scolopacidae | Seedsnipe | Sheathbill | Shorebird | Stilt | Stone-curlew | Thick-knee | Thinocoridae | Wader

 

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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Recurvirostridae".

 

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