Charadriiformes
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2026-08-05: worms_id 2682 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 390 species and has members in all parts of the world.W CalCOFI holds 27,726 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 43 taxa under it.R
- 27,726
- observations
- 27,726
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 39
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Laridae most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176445")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176445'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 4 taxa · Laridae most observed
- F Laridae gulls17,798
- F Alcidae auks4,954
- F Scolopacidae sandpipers3,594
- F Stercorariidae skuas1,380
Lineage 8 ranks · Animalia to Aves
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Glareola isabella · source
- Photo · Tupaia · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Charadriiformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369612155
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗