#family_Charadriidae__Charadriidae  plover family
  supertype:  #bird_family  a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
  member of:  #suborder_Charadrii
  member:  #plover  any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers
  member:  #genus_Charadrius__Charadrius  type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers
     member:  #piping_plover__Charadrius_melodus  small plover of eastern North America
     member:  #killdeer_plover__killdeer__kildeer__Charadrius_vociferus  American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
     member:  #dotterel__dotrel__Charadrius_morinellus__Eudromias_morinellus  rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia
  member:  #genus_Pluvialis__Pluvialis  golden plovers
     member:  #golden_plover  plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots
  member:  #genus_Vanellus__Vanellus  Eurasian lapwings
     member:  #lapwing__green_plover__greenplover__peewit__pewit  large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
  member:  #genus_Arenaria__Arenaria  turnstones
     member:  #turnstone  migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over stones in searching for food

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