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Waders, gulls and terns
Charadriiformes
Position in the tree All other modern birds Neoaves › Elementaves Elementaves weakly supported › Cranes and waders Gruimorphae weakly supported
Families in this order: Avocets and stilts, Oystercatchers, Plovers and lapwings, Sandpipers and snipes, Skuas, Auks, Gulls and terns. 7 families · 55 species.
Avocets and stilts Recurvirostridae
2 species
Oystercatchers Haematopodidae
1 species
Plovers and lapwings Charadriidae
7 species
Sandpipers and snipes Scolopacidae
24 species
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Common sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos -
Ruddy turnstone
Arenaria interpres -
Sanderling
Calidris alba -
Dunlin
Calidris alpina -
Red Knot
Calidris canutus -
Curlew sandpiper
Calidris ferruginea -
Purple sandpiper
Calidris maritima -
Little stint
Calidris minuta -
Ruff
Calidris pugnax -
Temminck's stint
Calidris temminckii -
Common snipe
Gallinago gallinago -
Bar-tailed godwit
Limosa lapponica -
Black-tailed Godwit
Limosa limosa -
Jack snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus -
Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata -
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus -
Red phalarope
Phalaropus fulicarius -
Red-necked phalarope
Phalaropus lobatus -
Eurasian woodcock
Scolopax rusticola -
Spotted redshank
Tringa erythropus -
Wood sandpiper
Tringa glareola -
Common greenshank
Tringa nebularia -
Green sandpiper
Tringa ochropus -
Common redshank
Tringa totanus
Skuas Stercorariidae
4 species
Auks Alcidae
4 species
Gulls and terns Laridae
13 species
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Whiskered tern
Chlidonias hybrida -
White-winged tern
Chlidonias leucopterus -
Black tern
Chlidonias niger -
Black-headed gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus -
Gull-billed tern
Gelochelidon nilotica -
Little gull
Hydrocoloeus minutus -
Caspian tern
Hydroprogne caspia -
Mediterranean gull
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus -
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatus -
Caspian gull
Larus cachinnans -
Common gull
Larus canus -
Lesser black-backed gull
Larus fuscus -
Common Tern
Sterna hirundo