Order Charadriiformes

Direct Child Taxa (7)

• Family Alcidae
• Family Charadriidae
• Family Haematopodidae
• Family Laridae
• Family Recurvirostridae
• Family Scolopacidae
• Family Stercorariidae

Taxonomic Leaves (93)

1. Apple Moss (Bartramia pomiformis)
2. Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
3. American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
4. American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
5. Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
6. Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
7. American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
8. Snowy Plover (Anarhynchus nivosus)
9. Wilson's Plover (Anarhynchus wilsonia)
10. Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
11. Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
12. Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
13. Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
14. Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
15. Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis)
16. Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
17. Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa haemastica)
18. Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
19. Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
20. Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
21. Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
22. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata)
23. Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
24. Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
25. Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis)
26. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
27. Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
28. Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
29. Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
30. Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
31. Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
32. White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)
33. Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis)
34. Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
35. Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
36. Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
37. Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
38. American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
39. Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata)
40. Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
41. Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
42. Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
43. Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
44. Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
45. Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
46. Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
47. Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
48. South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
49. Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
50. Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
51. Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
52. Dovekie (Alle alle)
53. Common Murre (Uria aalge)
54. Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia)
55. Razorbill (Alca torda)
56. Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
57. Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
58. Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
59. Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
60. Bonaparte's Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)
61. Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)
62. Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
63. Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus)
64. Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea)
65. Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
66. Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
67. Black-tailed Gull (Larus crassirostris)
68. Heermann's Gull (Larus heermanni)
69. Short-billed Gull (Larus canus)
70. Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
71. California Gull (Larus californicus)
72. American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)
73. Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
74. Thayer's Gull (Larus thayeri)
75. Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
76. Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
77. Slaty-backed Gull (Larus schistisagus)
78. Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
79. Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
80. Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus)
81. Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus)
82. Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus)
83. Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)
84. Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
85. Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
86. Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
87. Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
88. Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
89. Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
90. Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
91. Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
92. Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
93. Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)

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Additional taxa

• Short-billed Dowitcher (Atlantic) (Limnodromus griseus griseus)
• Short-billed Dowitcher (Prairie) (Limnodromus griseus hendersoni)
• guillemot species (Cepphus sp.)
• Eastern Willet (Tringa semipalmata semipalmata)
• Western Willet (Tringa semipalmata inornatus)
• Herring x Lesser Black-backed Gull (hybrid) (Larus smithsonianus x fuscus)
• Herring x Glaucous Gull (hybrid) (Larus smithsonianus x hyperboreus)
• White-rumped Sandpiper x Dunlin (hybrid) (Calidris fuscicollis x alpina)
• Black-headed x Ring-billed Gull (hybrid) (Hybrid Chroicocephalus ridibundus x Larus delawarensis)