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	Magellanic Plover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magellanic Plover, Pluvianellus socialis, is a rare and unique wader found only in southernmost South America.
		Its relationships with the plovers and other wader groups are uncertain, and it is often placed in its own family, Pluvianellidae.
		This species is not migratory, although some birds move further north in southern Argentina in winter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pluvianellidae (184 words)

	Classification of birds of South America Part 02
		2003) indicate that the Burhinidae is more closely related to Chionidae + Pluvianellidae than they are to Charadriidae or other Charadriiformes.
		Strauch (1978) and Chu (1995) placed Chionidae closer to Pluvianellidae than to its typical position in the larid radiation of the Charadriiformes, based on analysis of morphological characters; genetic data (Paton et al.
		Family name given as Chionididae in many references; see Burger (1996).
	www.museum.lsu.edu /~Remsen/SACCBaseline02.html (7481 words)

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