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Charadriiformes - large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life

animal order - the order of animals

Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds

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

Limicolae, suborder Limicolae - term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds; coextensive with the Charadrii

genus Haematopus, Haematopus - oystercatchers

coastal diving bird - gull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family

suborder Lari, Lari - gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers

Alcidae, family Alcidae - web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.

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Conservation of Charadriiformes on the Peruvian coast.

Sobre la importancia de la certificacion internacional para los anilladores de aves en Peru

Charadriiformes included Burhinidae (1 sp.), Recurvirostridae (1 sp.) and Charadriidae (2 spp.).

STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN

Wild birds, particularly of the orders Anseriformes and Charadriiformes, are natural hosts of low pathogenicity avian influenza (4).

Comparison of 2016-17 and Previous Epizootics of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5 Guangdong Lineage in Europe

Previous cases of bilateral Polydactyly in the thoracic pr pelvic limbs have been reported in species within the orders Charadriiformes, (4-7) Galliformes, (8,9) Falconiformes, (10-12) Strigiformes,13 Caprimulgiformes, (14) Columbiformes, (15) and Passeriformes.

Bilateral Pentadactyly in an Immature Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba)

Abundancia y fluctuaciones de aves limicolas (Charadriiformes) en una playa fangosa de Chomes, Costa Rica.

Influencia de la vigilancia en una zona rocosa dentro de un area marina protegida, Pacifico Central de Costa Rica

2017: Sex-related differences in autumn migration timing of adult common sandpipers Actitis hypoleucos (Linnaeus, 1758) (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae).

Sexing of common gull, Larus canus, using linear measurements

It's a word that describes an order of birds (Charadriiformes to taxonomists) that wade in shallow water to find their food.

BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes

Morphological correlates of habitat selection in a community of shorebirds (Charadriiformes).

Use of Laguna de Bustillos, Chihuahua, by waterbirds during the 2011-2012 wintering season

(2001): Ducks, rails and limicoline waders (Aves: Anseriformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes) from the lowermost Oligocene of Belgium.

Anatomy and variability of cuvierichelys parisiensis, a geoemydid turtle that crosses the eocene-oligocene boundary in Belgium