Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Charadriiformes

WoRMS 2682ITIS 176445key itis:176445

2026-08-05: worms_id 2682 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Glareola isabella

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Charadriiformes — Photo · Tupaia · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 4 taxa

F Laridae gulls17,798
F Alcidae auks4,954
F Scolopacidae sandpipers3,594
F Stercorariidae skuas1,380

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176445")

Charadriiformes

Observed in

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.