Gulls, Sandpipers, ... (Charadriiformes)

The order Charadriiformes includes around 370 species within 17 species and includes plovers, jacanas, stilts, avocets, thick knees, terns, and murres; worldwide. They have three basic body plans: suborder Charadrii—waders (shorebirds) that usually feed on small animals in mud or water; bill variable but often long and used for probing; Lari—web-footed, dense-plumaged water birds that feed by plunging into water for fish, robbing other birds, or scavenging; and Alcae— dense-plumaged, web-footed, marine, wing-propelled divers that feed on fish or invertebrates. They vary in length from 4.7 to 30.7 inches.

On this page you will find only the families and species which may be observed in and around the area of Harmon Park. Species which have been verifiably observed on the grounds of the Park are indicated with this symbol: