Английская Википедия:Charadrius
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Charadrius is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds. The genus name Charadrius is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. They are found throughout the world.
Many Charadrius species are characterised by breast bands or collars. These can be (in the adult) complete bands (ringed, semipalmated, little ringed, long-billed), double or triple bands (killdeer, three-banded, Forbes', two-banded, double-banded) or partial collars (Kentish, piping, snowy, Malaysian, Javan, red-capped, puna).
They have relatively short bills and feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as do longer-billed waders like snipe.
Species of the genera Aegialites (or Aegialitis), Thinornis, and Elseyornis are now subsumed within Charadrius. The former genus name Thinornis combined the Ancient Greek this meaning "beach" or "sand" with ornis meaning "bird".[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Charadrius was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[2] The name had been used (as Charadrios sive Hiaticula) by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603 for the common ringed plover.[3] The word is Late Latin and is mentioned in the Vulgate Bible. It derives from the Ancient Greek χαραδριος/kharadrios, an unidentified plain-coloured nocturnal bird that was found in ravines and river valleys (from kharadra, "ravine").Шаблон:Efn[4] The type species is the common ringed plover.[5] However, it appears that the taxonomy of “Charadrius” may be erroneous, as for example the Kentish plover is more closely related to lapwings than it is to, say, the greater ringed plover. Hence, the either all members of Charadriidae, excluding Pluvialis are grouped in a single genus, Charadrius, or the genus is reduced to the Greater ringed plover, Piping plover, Semipalmated plover, and Killdeer.[6]
Species
The genus originally contained 33 species. However, in December 2023, The International Ornithologists' Union incorporated all species under Thinornis and Elseyornis into Charadrius, and some species of Charadrius are now placed in the genus Anarhynchus. As a result, Charadrius now consists of only 11 species:[7]
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Шаблон:Small
- Common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula Шаблон:Small
- Semipalmated plover Charadrius semipalmatus Шаблон:Small
- Piping plover Charadrius melodus Шаблон:Small
- Hooded plover Charadrius cucullatus Шаблон:Small
- Forbes's plover Charadrius forbesi Шаблон:Small
- Three-banded plover Charadrius tricollaris Шаблон:Small
- Black-fronted dotterel Charadrius melanops Шаблон:Small
- Shore plover Charadrius novaeseelandiae Шаблон:Small
- Little ringed plover Charadrius dubius Шаблон:Small
- Long-billed plover Charadrius placidus Шаблон:Small
Another species, the Auckland Islands shore plover (Charadrius (Thinornis) rossii), known from just one specimen collected in 1840, is now generally considered to be a juvenile shore plover whose location was incorrectly recorded.[8]
Gallery
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Black-fronted Dotterel (C. melanops)
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Semipalmated plover (C. semipalmatus)
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Three-banded plover (C. tricollaris) eggs on open ground
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Little ringed plover (C. dubius) chick
Notes
References
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Further reading
- Les Christidis, Walter Boles: Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing. 2008. Шаблон:ISBN
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