Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Aves (class)

Narrower term/s

• Alcidae (family)[+]
  • Fratercula (genus) [+]
    • Fratercula arctica (species)
• Charadriidae (family)[+]
  • plovers
• Scolopacidae (family)[+]
  • snipes
• Laridae (family)[+]
  • Larinae (subfamily)

Anotations

Scope note:

Order containing around 370 species in 17 families including plovers, jacanas, stilts, avocets, thickknees, terns, and murres, having three basic body plans: waders (shorebirds) that usually feed on small animals in mud or water; web-footed dense-plumaged water birds that feed by plunging into water for fish, robbing other birds, or scavenging; and dense-plumaged, web-footed, marine, wing-propelled divers that feed on fish or invertebrates.