Recurvirostridae
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Recurvirostridae
| image = Black-necked Stilt.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Black-necked Stilt
(Himantopus himantopus mexicanus)
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Aves
| ordo = Charadriiformes
| familia = Recurvirostridae
| familia_authority = Bonaparte, 1854
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- Recurvirostra avosetta
- Recurvirostra americana
- Recurvirostra novaehollandiae
- Recurvirostra andina
- Himantopus himantopus
- Himantopus novaezelandiae
- Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
}}
Recurvirostridae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii. It contains two distinct groups:
- The avocets, with long legs and long up curved bills which they sweep from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands they prefer.
- The stilts, which have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
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