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Taxonomic Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia | (Animals) |
| Phylum: | Chordata | (Vertebrates) |
| Class: | Aves | (Birds) |
| Order: | Charadriiformes | |
| Family | Genus - species | Common name | Thumbnail |
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| Burhinidae | Burhinus oedicnemus | Stone Curlew | |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius alexandrinus | Kentish Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius asiaticus | Caspian Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius dubius | Little Ringed Plover |  |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius hiaticula | Common Ringed Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius leschenaultii | Greater Sand Plover |  |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius mongolus | Mongolian Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Charadrius pecuarius | Kittlitz's Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Eudromias morinellus | Eurasian Dotterel | |
| Charadriidae | Pluvialis apricaria | Eurasian Golden-Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Pluvialis fulva | Pacific Golden-Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Pluvialis squatarola | Grey Plover | |
| Charadriidae | Vanellus gregarius | Sociable Lapwing | |
| Charadriidae | Vanellus indicus | Red-wattled Lapwing | |
| Charadriidae | Vanellus leucurus | White-tailed Lapwing |  |
| Charadriidae | Vanellus spinosus | Spur-winged Lapwing |  |
| Charadriidae | Vanellus tectus | Black-headed Lapwing | |
| Charadriidae | Vanellus vanellus | Northern Lapwing | |
| Dromadidae | Dromas ardeola | Crab Plover | |
| Glareolidae | Cursorius cursor | Cream-colored Courser | |
| Glareolidae | Glareola nordmanni | Black-winged Pratincole | |
| Glareolidae | Glareola pratincola | Collared Pratincole | |
| Haematopodidae | Haematopus ostralegus | Eurasian Oystercatcher | |
| Laridae | Larus argentatus | Herring Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus armenicus | Armenian Gull |  |
| Laridae | Larus audouinii | Audouin's Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus brunnicephalus | Brown-headed Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus cachinnans | Yellow-legged Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus canus | Mew Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus cirrocephalus | Grey-headed Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus fuscus | Lesser Black-backed Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus genei | Slender-billed Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus hemprichii | Sooty Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus heuglini | Siberian/Heuglin's Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus hyperboreus | Glaucous Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus ichthyaetus | Great Black-headed Gull |  |
| Laridae | Larus leucophthalmus | White-eyed Gull |  |
| Laridae | Larus marinus | Great Black-backed Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus melanocephalus | Mediterranean Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus minutus | Little Gull | |
| Laridae | Larus ridibundus | Common Black-headed Gull | |
| Laridae | Rissa tridactyla | Black-legged Kittiwake | |
| Laridae | Xema sabini | Sabine's Gull | |
| Recurvirostridae | Himantopus himantopus | Black-winged Stilt |  |
| Recurvirostridae | Recurvirostra avosetta | Pied Avocet | |
| Rostratulidae | Rostratula benghalensis | Greater Painted-snipe | |
| Rynchopidae | Rynchops flavirostris | African Skimmer | |
| Scolopacidae | Arenaria interpres | Ruddy Turnstone | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris alba | Sanderling | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris alpina | Dunlin | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris canutus | Red Knot | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris ferruginea | Curlew Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris melanotos | Pectoral Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris minuta | Little Stint |  |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris pusilla | Semipalmated Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris subminuta | Long-toed Stint | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris temminckii | Temminck's Stint | |
| Scolopacidae | Calidris tenuirostris | Great Knot | |
| Scolopacidae | Gallinago gallinago | Common Snipe | |
| Scolopacidae | Gallinago media | Great Snipe | |
| Scolopacidae | Gallinago megala | Swinhoe's Snipe | |
| Scolopacidae | Gallinago stenura | Pintail Snipe | |
| Scolopacidae | Limicola falcinellus | Broad-billed Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Long-billed Dowitcher | |
| Scolopacidae | Limosa lapponica | Bar-tailed Godwit | |
| Scolopacidae | Limosa limosa | Black-tailed Godwit |  |
| Scolopacidae | Lymnocryptes minimus | Jack Snipe | |
| Scolopacidae | Numenius arquata | Eurasian Curlew | |
| Scolopacidae | Numenius phaeopus | Whimbrel | |
| Scolopacidae | Numenius tenuirostris | Slender-billed Curlew | |
| Scolopacidae | Phalaropus fulicaria | Red Phalarope | |
| Scolopacidae | Phalaropus lobatus | Red-necked Phalarope | |
| Scolopacidae | Philomachus pugnax | Ruff |  |
| Scolopacidae | Scolopax rusticola | Eurasian Woodcock | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa cinerea | Terek Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa erythropus | Spotted Redshank | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa flavipes | Lesser Yellowlegs | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa glareola | Wood Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa hypoleucos | Common Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa nebularia | Common Greenshank | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa ochropus | Green Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa stagnatilis | Marsh Sandpiper | |
| Scolopacidae | Tringa totanus | Common Redshank | |
| Stercorariidae | Catharacta maccormicki | South Polar Skua | |
| Stercorariidae | Catharacta skua | Great Skua | |
| Stercorariidae | Stercorarius longicaudus | Long-tailed Jaeger | |
| Stercorariidae | Stercorarius parasiticus | Parasitic Jaeger | |
| Stercorariidae | Stercorarius pomarinus | Pomarine Jaeger | |
| Sternidae | Chlidonias hybridus | Whiskered Tern | |
| Sternidae | Chlidonias leucopterus | White-winged Tern | |
| Sternidae | Chlidonias niger | Black Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna albifrons | Little Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna anaethetus | Bridled Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna bengalensis | Lesser Crested-Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna bergii | Great Crested-Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna caspia | Caspian Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna dougallii | Roseate Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna fuscata | Sooty Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna hirundo | Common Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna nilotica | Gull-billed Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna paradisaea | Arctic Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna repressa | White-cheeked Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna sandvicensis | Sandwich Tern | |
| Sternidae | Sterna saundersi | Saunders's Tern | |
