Class:
Aves
Order: CharadriiformesThese are the families under this
order of birds:
Family
Alcidae (puffins, murres, auklets, and relatives)
Family Burhinidae (thick-knees)
Family Charadriidae (lapwings and plovers)
Family Chionidae (sheathbills and Magellanic plover)
Family Dromadidae (crab plover)
Family Glareolidae (coursers and pratincoles)
Family Haematopodidae (oystercatchers)
Family Ibidorhynchidae (ibisbill)
Family Jacanidae (jacanas)
Family Laridae (gulls, terns, and skimmers)
Family Pedionomidae (plains-wanderer)
Family Pteroclididae (sandgrouse)
Family Recurvirostridae (avocets and stilts)
Family Rostratulidae (painted snipe)
Family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, snipes, and relatives)
Family Stercorariidae (skuas and jaegers)
Family Thinocoridae (seedsnipe)