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The order of birds including auks (Alcidae), gulls and terns (Laridae), plovers (Charadriidae), and sandpipers (Scolopacidae).

Alcidae

This family of birds includes auks, puffins, guillemots, murres, and murrelets.

Burhinidae

Family of ground-dwelling birds, the stone-curlews or thick knees.

Charadriidae

This family of birds includes plovers and lapwings.

Glareolidae

Family of birds, the pratincoles and coursers.

Haematopodidae

Family of waders with a single genus, Haematopus, the oystercatchers.

Jacanidae

Family of tropical birds characterised by their long toes which enable them to walk on floating vegetation.

Laridae

This family of birds includes gulls, terns, and allies.

Recurvirostridae

This family of birds includes the avocets and stilts.

Scolopacidae

This family of birds includes sandpipers, snipes, curlews, woodcocks, phalaropes, and allies.

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