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Plovers, lapwings

Charadriidae


Red eye, WW around water.




-Golden plover (flat forehead short bill, no hallux, brownish)


-Lapwing (crest)


-Mongolian Plover (small)

Oystercatchers

Haematopidae


Lay eggs on ground


WW

Thick-knees and stone curlews

Burnhinidae


-Weird short toes


-Double striped (same as in picture)

Avocets and stilts

Recurvirostridae


Temperate and tropical regions


-long legs

Sheathbills

Chionididae


-Antartic Bird


-The gross one.

Hemipodes

Turnicidae


-No new World


-no hallux, extremely precocial. Breed at 6 wks old.

Sandpipers, snipes, curlews, turnstones.

Scolopacidae


-No Antarctica.


*Phalarobe: lobed toes, females brightly colored, reverse dimorphism.


*Woodcock or tumberdoodle: eat worms, eyes on back, 360 degrees. In courtship males do weird sound with 10th primary feather.


Gulls and terns

Laridae


-WW no Antarctica.


*Ring billed gull: palmate.


*Terns: (2) long pointy wings, most have forked tails.


*Skimmer: medium size, longer mandible longer.

Skuas and Jaegers

Stercorariidae


-Arctic and Antarc-Pacific.


-Jaeger means hunter: only in the north.


*Skua: big breast

Auks, murders, puffins

Alcidae


-Northern hemisphere


*Puffin


*Razorbill

Coursers and Pratincoles

Glareolidae


-Old World Only


*Pranticone

Crab plovers

Dromadidae


-Tanzania, Persian Gulf



Seedsnipes

Thinocoridae


-South America



Jacanas

Jacanidae


WW (no Europe)


*(2) long toes.

Collared Hemipodes

Pedionomidae


-Australia Only



Painted Snipes

Rostratulidae


-SA, A, M.