Avocets
Recurvirostra
The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name comes from Latin recurvus, 'curved backwards' and rostrum, 'bill'. The common name is thought to derive from the Italian (Ferrarese) word avosetta, which may relate to Latin avis ("bird"). Francis Willughby in 1678 noted the "Avosetta of the Italians".
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
American Avocet
speciesRecurvirostra americana
Pied Avocet
speciesRecurvirostra avosetta
Red-necked Avocet
speciesRecurvirostra novaehollandiae
Andean Avocet
speciesRecurvirostra andina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4881.