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Recurvirostra
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The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name comes from Latin , 'curved backwards' and , 'bill'. The common name is thought to derive from the Italian (Ferrarese) word , which may relate to Latin ("bird"). Francis Willughby in 1678 noted the "Avosetta of the Italians".
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyRecurvirostridae
Recurvirostra es un género de aves caradriformes de la familia Recurvirostridae conocidas vulgarmente como avocetas. Tienen un pico muy característico, delgado y curvado hacia arriba, del que deriva el nombre del género, ya que consiste en la combinación de las palabras latinas recurvus «curvado hacia atrás» y rostrum que significa «pico». Son aves limícolas con una distribución mundial que viven en lagunas poco profundas donde capturan invertebrados.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Recurvirostridae
- Collections
- UF, UCMP, MZLU, MSB, ANWC, UMZC
- Recorded in
- United States, South Africa, Spain, Denmark, Australia, Australie, China
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The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name comes from Latin , 'curved backwards' and , 'bill'. The common name is thought to derive from the Italian (Ferrarese) word , which may relate to Latin ("bird"). Francis Willughby in 1678 noted the "Avosetta of the Italians".
==Taxonomy== The genus Recurvirostra was introduced in 1758 by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his to contain a single species, the pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. The genus name combines the Latin meaning 'bent' or 'curved backwards' with meaning 'bill'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Recurvirostra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.