Charadriiformes

10 species.

Called the clown of the sea. Can dive to 60 meters and hold up to 62 fish in their bill at...

Champion of migration: 70,000-90,000 km per year Arctic to Antarctic. Over 30 years that e...

Sweeps its elegant upturned bill side to side through shallow water to stun and capture pr...

Instantly recognizable by impossibly long pink legs, proportionally the longest of any bir...

A plover of parking lots and ballfields as much as shorelines. Named for its ringing kill-...

Migrates up to 15,000 km from the high Arctic to Tierra del Fuego. Times refueling on Dela...

Named for flipping stones, shells, and seaweed in search of crustaceans. Breeds in the hig...

A pale sand-colored plover that vanishes against open beach. Nests are shallow scrapes lin...

The textbook seagull of the North Atlantic. Drops shellfish onto rocks and pavement to cra...

The only bird with a lower mandible longer than the upper, slicing the water surface in fl...