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  Shorebirds (suborder Charadrii) (from charadriiform) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Female jacanas are larger and more aggressive than males; after laying, females of some species show no interest in the nest or young, leaving incubation and care of chicks to the male.
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any member of the suborder Charadrii (order Charadriiformes) that is commonly found on sea beaches or inland mudflats; in Britain they are called waders, or wading birds.
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 Search Results for charadrii - Encyclopædia Britannica
The earliest known Charadrii are represented by miscellaneous bones from the Upper Cretaceous rock layers of Wyoming, considered to constitute a family, the Cimolopterygidae, of the Charadrii.
This classification is based primarily on that of the American ornithologist Alexander Wetmore but includes the ideas of a number of other authorities.
The members of the suborder Lari are quite different in breeding behaviour from those of the Charadrii.
www.britannica.com /search?query=charadrii&submit=Find&source=MWTAB   (261 words)

  
 Avian Demography Unit: Les Underhill, list of publications
Habitat preferences of waders (Charadrii) on the coast of the Orkney Islands.
The status of waders (Charadrii) and other birds in the coastal region of the southern and eastern Cape, summer 1978/79.
Waders (Charadrii) from the northern hemisphere in southern Africa.
web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/staff/s_les01.htm   (6289 words)

  
 THE SYSTEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS OF AECHMORHYNCHUS, PROSOBONIA, AND PHEGORNIS (CHARADRIIFORMES; CHARADRII)
Pterylography.--Lowe's study of pterylosis is neither detailed nor ex- tensive enough to serve as a basis for sound taxonomic conclusions.
He stated that the feather tracts in Aechmorhynchus, unlike those of other Charadrii, lacked an obvious separation between the anterior and posterior portions of the spinal tract.
JEHL, J. Relationships in the Charadrii (Shorebirds): a taxonomic study based on color patterns of the downy young.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v087n04/p0760-p0780.html   (10396 words)

  
 FOUR MARBLED GODWITS EXCEED THE NORTH AMERICAN LONGEVITY RECORD FOR SCOLOPACIDS
LITERATURE CITED BOYD, H. Mortality and fertility of European Charadrii.
GERSTENBERG, R. A study of shorebirds (Charadrii) in Humboldt Bay, California-- 1968 to 1969.
Longevity record for the Bristle-thighed Curlew: an extension.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v066n02/p0181-p0183.html   (719 words)

  
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