Charadrius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Charadrius
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Charadrius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Charadrius
Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. They are found throughout the world.
Many Charadrius species are characterised by their plumage pattern, being breast bands or collars. In the adult, the patterns are single complete bands (ringed, semipalmated, little ringed, long-billed), or double or triple bands (killdeer, three-banded, Forbes'). They have relatively short bills and feed mainly on insects, worms, or other invertebrates, depending on habitat. Prey is obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups; they hunt by sight, rather than by feel (tactile sense) as do longer-billed waders like snipe or curlews.
...Charadrius in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Strandkiewiete
- Bokmål
- Typiske loer
- Bulgarian
- Дъждосвирци
- Chinese
- 鴴屬
- Czech
- kulík
- English
- Typical Plovers
- English
- Sand Plovers
- Estonian
- Tüllid
- Finnish
- tyllit
- German
- Regenpfeifer
- Hebrew
- חופמי
- Italian
- Piviere
- Japanese
- チドリ属
- Korean
- 물떼새속
- Portuguese
- Borrelhos e Batuíras
- Russian
- Зуйки
- Thai
- สกุล นกหัวโต
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Charadrius alexandrinus
- Charadrius alticola
- Charadrius asiaticus
- Charadrius bicinctus
- Charadrius collaris
- Charadrius dealbatus
- Charadrius dubius
- Charadrius falklandicus
- Charadrius forbesi
- Charadrius hiaticula
- Charadrius javanicus
- Charadrius leschenaultii
- Charadrius marginatus
- Charadrius melodus
- Charadrius modestus
- Charadrius mongolus
- Charadrius montanus
- Charadrius morinellus
- Charadrius nivosus
- Charadrius obscurus
- Charadrius pallidus
- Charadrius pecuarius
- Charadrius peronii
- Charadrius placidus
- Charadrius ruficapillus
- Charadrius sanctaehelenae
- Charadrius semipalmatus
- Charadrius thoracicus
- Charadrius tricollaris
- Charadrius veredus
- Charadrius vociferus
- Charadrius wilsonia































































































































































