Glareolidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Glareolidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Glareolidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Glareolidae
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Lari. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The atypical Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), traditionally placed in this family, is now known to be only distantly related (basal of clade Charadrii).
The family contains 17 species in 4 genera.
...Glareolidae in languages:
- Bokmål
- Brakksvalefamilien
- Bokmål
- Brakksvaler
- Czech
- ouhorlíkovití
- Danish
- Ørkenløbere & braksvaler
- Dutch
- Renvogels en Vorkstaartplevieren
- English
- Pratincoles and Coursers
- Estonian
- Jooksurlased
- Finnish
- pääskykahlaajat
- French
- Courvites et glaréoles
- German
- Brachschwalbenartigen
- Hungarian
- futómadarak és székicsérek
- Japanese
- ツバメチドリ科
- Korean
- 제비물떼새과
- Portuguese
- Perdizes-do-mar e corredeiras
- Russian
- Тиркушковые
- Swedish
- vadarsvalor
- Thai
- วงศ์ นกแอ่นทุ่ง
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