BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

CHARADRIIFORMES (plovers and sea birds)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Family	ALCIDAE (puffins, guillemots and auks)	2
Genus	Alca (razorbill/guillemot)	1		1
Species	Fratercula arctica (L.) (Puffin)				1
Family	BURHINIDAE (stone curlews)	1
Species	Burhinus oedicnemus (L.) (Stone Curlew)			4
Family	CHARADRIIDAE (plovers)	2
Genus	Pluvialis (a genus of plovers)	1		1
Species	Vanellus vanellus (L.) (Lapwing)			1
Family	HAEMATOPODIDAE (oystercatchers)	1
Species	Haematopus ostralegus L. (Oystercatcher)			2
Family	LARIDAE (sea gulls)	2
Genus	Larus (gulls)	1	13		1
Species	Rissa tridactyla (L.) (Kittiwake)			1
Family	RECURVIROSTRIDAE (avocets and stilts)	1
Species	Recurvirostra avosetta L. (Avocet)			1
Family	SCOLOPACIDAE (sandpipers, curlews, godwits, stints, woodcocks etc)	6
Species	Actitis hypoleucos (L.) (Common Sandpiper)			1
Genus	Calidris (a genus of stints and sandpipers)	2		2
Genus	Limosa (godwits)	1		1
Species	Scolopax rusticola L. (Woodcock)		2
Genus	Tringa (a genus of sandpipers)	1		2
Family	STERCORARIDAE (skuas)	1
Genus	Stercorarius (skuas)	1		1
Family	STERNIDAE (terns)	2
Genus	Sterna (terns)	2		2

Suggested Literature

CHARADRIIFORMES may be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with CHARADRIIFORMES:

		is ectoparasitised by imago	Ornithomya avicularia - a flat fly (Diptera: Hippoboscidae)		Hutson, A.M., 1984
		is ectoparasitised by imago	Ornithomya chloropus - a flat fly (Diptera: Hippoboscidae)		Hutson, A.M., 1984
	guano (soil-mixed)	soil-mixed guano is decayed by fruitbody	Stropharia semiglobata - Dung Roundhead (Agaricales: Strophariaceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on cliff tops]

Charadriiformes may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References