#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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