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Wilson's Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) - Scientific classification, life cycle, habitat, and similar species.
Fratercula arctica (Atlantic Puffin) - Facts about this species' geographic range, food habits, and behavior. Includes a photo.
Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) - Identifying traits, nesting, diet, and taxonomy. Includes photos.
Project Puffin and the Seabird Restoration Program - National Audubon Society program dedicated to restoring seabird diversity. The program promotes the protection and appreciation of seabirds worldwide.
Pacific Southwest Research Station Marbled Murrelet Research Projects - About US Forest Service investigations on the effects of habitat change on the marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus).
Endangered Species: Marbled Murrelet - Sustainable Ecosystems Institute fact sheet about Brachyramphus marmoratus. Describes its geographic occurrence, conservation projects in old-growth coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, and ongoing research.
Brachyramphus marmoratus (Marbled Murrelet) - Species accounts includes data on this bird's taxonomy, physical traits, natural history, and conservation status.
Long-billed Murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix) - Photos and personal observations of this bird in Ithaca, NY, December 2001.
Alcidae Family (Auks) - Information about nine species from the Animal Diversity Web.
Ngutuparore, the Wrybill (Anarchynchus frontalis) - Focuses on this bird's physical traits, habitat, and breeding.

Charadriiformes - Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 350 species and has members in all parts of the world.
Lari - The suborder Lari is the part of the order Charadriiformes which includes the gulls, terns, skuas and skimmers, with the waders and snipes making up the rest of the order. Following recent research, the auks are now placed into the Lari too; the Glareolidae might constitute a distinct suborder.
Crab Plover - The Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola) is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae. Its relationship within the Charadriiformes is unclear (del Hoyo et al), some have considered it to be closely related to the thick-knees, or the pratincoles, while others have considered it closer to the auks and gulls.
Skimmer - The Skimmers, Rhynchopidae, are a small family of tern-like birds in the order Charadriiformes, which also includes the waders, gulls and auks. The family is comprised of three species found in South Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Wader - Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. The latter are the skuas (Stercorariidae), gulls (Laridae), terns (Sternidae), skimmers (Rhynchopidae), and auks (Alcidae).